Man Tanghong

Chapter 795 Loyalty is not constant
With the intensification of conflicts between elementary schools and wealthy families in various places, the wealthy families in various places have also tasted the taste, realizing that this is the foundation for the imperial court to dig their foothold, so the expected resistance also came as expected.

These aristocratic families were unwilling to confront the imperial court head-on, so they took advantage of the conflict between Zhang Liang and the Zheng family of Xingyang to secretly support the Zheng family of Xingyang and began to attack Zhang Liang.

In less than ten days, there were as many as 160 three memorials for the impeachment of Zhang Liang, thirteen of which were memorials of the Duke of the State, and two memorials of the Prince of the County. uncle.

For a while, Zhang Liang was reduced to a street rat, and everyone shouted and beat him.

After Li Yuan got the news, he called the two county kings who had submitted the memorial to the Hall of Liangyi and gave them a ruthless admonition.

Your own family is fighting against a powerful family, as members of your own family, it's fine if you don't help your own family, but it's unreasonable to help the enemy instead.

That is to say, Mrs. Li can't go to the front of the stage to directly fight with the wealthy family, otherwise, Li Yuan will teach the two county kings a lesson anyway, instead of letting them go after admonishing them.

Although the two county kings did stupid things, they were not punished substantially.

Zhang Liang was different. From the day he was impeached, people from aristocratic families united to torment him secretly.

Everything he does will encounter all kinds of difficulties and troubles.

Seriously, it even brought trouble to the court.

In the absence of Li Yuan's explicit support for him, his official position was downgraded by three levels in one go.

Now Zhang Liang panicked completely, and he didn't dare to stay outside anymore, and ran back to Chang'an like a bereaved dog, seeking asylum.

With Qin Qiong's help, he appeared in the front hall of Wude Hall.

He bowed his head and knelt on the ground.

Li Yuanji sat lazily on the side of the couch, stared at Zhang Liang with deep eyes, and said in a low tone: "You said you came to me because you want me to help you out of trouble?"

Zhang Liang nodded vigorously.

Qin Qiong, who brought him in, chimed in and said, "Your Highness, I can testify that Zhang Liang is absolutely loyal to Tang Dynasty, and he does not dare to neglect the sage and what you have explained.

Those impeachments are pure nonsense, please save his life. "

Li Yuanji glanced at Qin Qiong, angrily and funnyly said: "You asked me to save him? It's too late for me to kill him!"

Qin Qiong stared in astonishment.

Zhang Liang also raised his head suddenly, with a look of horror on his face.

Li Yuanji turned cold, looked at Zhang Liang and said, "I don't believe my father didn't explain anything to you!"

Since Li Yuan wanted to use Zhang Liang as a pawn, he would definitely explain to Zhang Liang.

Knowing that Li Yuan had confessed, Zhang Liang came to ask for help, which meant that he didn't trust Li Yuan.

He doesn't trust Li Yuan, so what's the difference between that and not trusting the entire Li family?
Zhang Liang was a little flustered when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Holy...the saint is explaining something to the minister, but the saint just asked the minister to open the Xingyang Enlightenment School, and asked the minister to ask the child to play a play with him, and did not say anything. Others.

Now people from the Zheng family in Xingyang came to the door, and they also united with other big families. With my body, I really can't bear it. "

When Zhang Liang spoke at the end, his expression was still full of meaning.

Li Yuanji knew what he wanted to say.

It's nothing more than saying that Li Yuan doesn't care about killing or burying.

Obviously Li Yuan asked him to do these things, but now that he got into trouble, Li Yuan didn't come out to support him.

However, he dared not say these words in front of people.

Once it is said, it is disrespectful.

At that time, don't say that Li Yuan won't protect him, it's his luck if he doesn't kill him.

Zhang Liang's words made Li Yuanji a little surprised.

Li Yuanji didn't expect that when Li Yuan ordered Zhang Liang to do something, he didn't tell him the truth, but directly explained what he should do.

The advantage of doing this is that once the counterattack of all the wealthy families is caused, and Datang can't handle it, he can be pushed to the top of the tank and bear all the blame.

Datang, that is, the Li family, can stay out of the matter from the beginning to the end.

So even if it fails, Datang will only lose a prince, and there will be no other losses.

In Li Yuan's capacity, although it's a bit outrageous to do so, it's not wrong.

Because as the emperor of a country, when doing something that has a great impact and even affects the stability of the entire country, winning in stability is the most important thing.

During this period, some people may be abandoned as pawns, or some innocent people may be hurt.

But compared with what is really going to be done, and the impact of failure, this is nothing at all.

So what Li Yuan did in this matter, you can say that he is not authentic, but you can't say that he is wrong.

Because at any time, any country will do this when faced with this kind of thing.

This is the so-called She Xiaojia, for everyone.

Some people may think this is unfair, but in the eyes of a person in power, the interests of the country, and the interests of the vast majority of people, are the real interests.

In the face of these interests, personal interests can only make concessions.

If a person in power deliberately pursues fairness without safeguarding the interests of the country and the vast majority of people, then this person in power is definitely not a qualified person in power, and the country he governs will eventually fall apart.

Therefore, when personal interests and national interests, as well as the interests of the vast majority of people, conflict, fairness and justice do not exist.

Whoever pursues fairness and justice naively will be hurt in the end.

Of course, the disadvantages of doing this are also obvious, that is, it is easy to sacrifice Zhongliang, it is easy to be sorry for Zhongliang, and it is easy to force some people who are not willing to make sacrifices to turn back.

Many treacherous and evil people in history were loyal ministers and good generals at the beginning.

The reason why they finally embarked on the road of no return to treachery and evil is because they were forced.

The well-known treacherous ministers Ding Wei and Yan Song were all motivated to be loyal ministers when they first became officials, and they took many actions to achieve their ambitions. The reason why they became traitors in the end was because the court treated them unfairly.

They work loyally for the court and the emperor, but they are not appreciated by the emperor, nor promoted. On the contrary, those who are related, those who can flatter others, and those who can pay bribes are prosperous in official career.

This made their hearts unbalanced, and then they resolutely embarked on the path of treachery and evil. In the end, they became extreme ministers and became famous treacherous ministers in history.

It can be seen from this that when loyal ministers are forced to become traitors, the damage caused is far greater than those who were traitors from the beginning.

Zhang Liang's experience is different from theirs, the things he encountered are also different from theirs, and the unfair treatment he suffered is even more different from theirs.

So there is no way to talk about Zhang Liang's affairs with them.

However, if Zhang Liang is treated unfairly and Zhang Liang is made to make sacrifices, Zhang Liang may not have the opportunity to be a treacherous minister of Datang, but Zhang Liang's descendants may not.

As long as Zhang Liang's descendants feel that Datang treats them unfairly, they will take certain measures to cause certain harm to Datang.

This kind of thing is actually not uncommon in Datang.

People in Tang also talked about loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, but they were not so firm.

The specifics have to be seen.

But those who came from wealthy families were not firm in their loyalty to Datang.

Because in their hearts, their clan is what they should protect most, and Datang can only be ranked second.

This is also the reason why Datang wanted to eliminate the wealthy families.

In comparison, although the Song Dynasty has stretched a bit, it is stronger than the Tang Dynasty in terms of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

Otherwise, there would not be a scene where hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died together.

Datang does not have this kind of treatment.

When the Great Tang Dynasty fell, Huang Chao raised his arms and shouted that it was Wan Min Jing Cong.

So in the case of Zhang Liang, we have to decide carefully. We can't let Zhang Liang feel cold, but let Zhang Liang handle the matter.

"You can't carry it if you can't carry it?"

Li Yuanji made up his mind, stared at Zhang Liang and asked.

Zhang Liang opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.

Li Yuanji continued: "With my father standing behind you, what are you afraid of?"

Afraid of death.

Zhang Liang wanted to answer truthfully.

But Li Yuanji didn't give him a chance to speak, and continued: "Also, my father is standing behind you, do you think you have room to back down?"

If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.

This is the rule that the feudal dynasty has not changed for thousands of years.

As strong as Tu Baiqi, when a sword was handed to him, he would have to cut himself.

Of course, you can also resist.

The premise is whether you have the strength to resist, whether you want to live before and after, and whether you want the lives of the three tribes.

Although unfair treatment will cause great backlash, the ancients also had relative ways to deal with it.

That is to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots.

This is the root of the three tribes of Yi, the nine tribes of Zhu, and the ten tribes of Zhu.

Doesn't give you any chance to bounce back at all.

"minister……"

Zhang Liang was stuttering, unable to speak.

The tall figure of Li Yuan stood behind him. As a minister, he was not qualified to negotiate conditions with Li Yuan. He could only be like a puppet and let Li Yuan control him, with no room for choice or retreat.

Li Yuanji snorted and said, "Since you have no choice, you can just do what my father wants. What else is there to say?"

Zhang Liang stuttered for a long time, finally gritted his teeth, and said with a sideways heart: "I can die, but I don't want to harm my family!"

He dare not say that he does not want to die.

Because he is a military official, if a military official is afraid of death, then death is really not far away.

After all, the military officials in the court of the Tang Dynasty are all brave and fearless generals, and among them, there are countless ones who are higher than him.

If he said that he was afraid of death, the military officials would collectively abandon him and abandon him from the group of military officials.

If he hated Li Yuan and was abandoned by the group, then he would have to die.

(End of this chapter)