Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 679 Shaking the government and the opposition
In early July, it rained heavily in Chang'an.

Rainwater gathered into columns from the eaves of Daming Palace and fell into the gutter at the foot of the palace wall.

Mu Rong is leading the eunuchs to clear the blocked drain.

In fact, this kind of rough work no longer needs him, the favored eunuch next to the emperor, to do it, but Mu Rong just wanted to leave the oppressive atmosphere of the imperial study.

The people of Chang'an are very eager for this heavy rain. Chang'an has become hot since July, and a refreshing heavy rain finally dispelled some of the heat.

"Freshly released Chang'an Daily!"

On the square in front of the Imperial College, children are selling the latest "Chang'an Daily". This is the best-selling place for newspapers. Every morning, many Chang'an orphans get newspapers from the distribution point of the newspaper office, and then carry them to the Imperial College for sale.

And the supervising students in the Guozijian would also buy a newspaper when they went out to eat in the morning.

Guozijian Jijiu Yan Zhenqing looked at these orphans who carefully hid the newspapers in their coir raincoats in their pockets, and felt a little unbearable in his heart. He took out a few Qianyuan treasures and was about to buy all the newspapers in the children's hands.

The newsboy was ecstatic at first, but soon his face changed when he saw the Qianyuan treasure in Yan Zhenqing's hand, and then he started shaking his head wildly.

Only then did Yan Zhenqing realize that the value of Qianyuan Chongbao has depreciated again these days, and this amount of money is not enough to buy the newspaper in Xiaotong's hand.

Yan Zhenqing gave a few more, and the boy smiled happily, handed all the newspapers in his arms to Yan Zhenqing, and left happily.

Yan Zhenqing came to his office in the Imperial College with the newspaper between his arms.

From the beginning, "Chang'an Daily" only forwarded news from the Di Bao, and now it has mature sections on current affairs, popular science, business, history, and novels, and has gradually become a daily necessities that Chang'an scholars will buy.

However, Yan Zhenqing doesn't like this kind of newspapers that like to exaggerate their headlines. In his opinion, newspapers can only stir up emotions and are of no benefit to the country.

After putting down the newspaper, the headline was indeed Shi Siming's peace negotiation.

After the news of Shi Siming's peace negotiation reached Chang'an, a political earthquake occurred in Chang'an.

As Guo Ziyi's memorial was sent to Chang'an, the turmoil of the earthquake became even greater.

The prime ministers Pei Mian, Miao Jinqing, and Zhang Hao made it clear that the court should reject Shi Siming's surrender, and should follow the advice of the frontline general Guo Ziyi, and work harder to completely wipe out the rebel forces in Hedong.

The remaining prime ministers Cui Huan, Li Lin, and Li Xian said that the court should accept Shi Siming's surrender and end the war in Hedong as soon as possible. Both the court and the people need to recuperate.

Three votes to three, Cui Guangyuan chose to abstain.

The Zhengshitang couldn't reach a unified opinion, and other yamen of the imperial court became even more arguing.

From the end of the month to the beginning of July, the Guozijian where Yan Zhenqing worked had more than ten fights, all of which were fought by students with different opinions because of their different political views.

I heard that there were also several fights at Yushitai, but they were suppressed by Yushi Zhongcheng.

The ministries of the imperial court are also arguing whether they should accept Shi Siming's surrender.

Guo Ziyi, the two important ministers on the front line, insisted on continuing to attack Shi Siming, while Li Fuguo asked the court to accept Shi Siming's surrender as soon as possible.

The Zhengshitang could not reach a unified opinion, and the various ministries were arguing endlessly, and the front page of "Chang'an Daily" every day was about Shi Siming's surrender, and the people of Chang'an were also caught in the debate on this topic.

Of course, Yan Zhenqing was firmly opposed to the faction that the imperial court accepted Shi Siming's surrender.

His elder brother, Yan Gaoqing, insisted on resisting Anlu Mountain in Hedong after Anlu Mountain rebelled, and was finally executed by An Lushan.

Not only did the Hedong Fanzhen and Yan Zhenqing have family hatred, Yan Zhenqing himself also believed that the Hedong Fanzhen should be completely pacified so that the Tang Dynasty could be rebuilt on this basis.

Instead of being like a paper maker, just messing around with tinkering.

Yan Zhenqing flipped to the second page, and he stood up abruptly.

This turned out to be a new piece of news, and it was new news that Yan Zhenqing didn't know about!

When will important officials of the court know the new news of the court from the newspaper?
But after reading it, Yan Zhenqing was sure that this was new news!

General Nan Jiyun of Qingzhou and Zhang Wu, the training envoy of the Yanzhou Regiment, disobeyed the emperor's imperial order, destroyed the remnants of Shi Chaoyi in Qingzhou, and executed Shi Chaoyi.

Prince Li Chu in Bianzhou impeached Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu to the imperial court and asked them to be imprisoned and punished!

Yan Zhenqing was stunned, at this juncture?

He went out of the window and looked at the falling rain column, and the court storm was coming again.

Sure enough, as the prince's impeachment memorial was sent to the political affairs hall, eleven censors wrote together to impeach Nanji Yunzhangwu together with the prince.

Immediately afterwards, the ministers of the Ministry of War and other related departments also issued memorials, all of which supported the prince's opinion and requested that Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu be severely punished.

Then more details came to Chang'an. It is said that when the envoys of the Eastern Palace were recruiting for Shi Chaoyi's camp, Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu attacked the camp.

Here the prince wrote a letter "please kill the country's thieves". At this time, the memorial of Zhang Xun, who stayed behind in Luoyang, was sent to Chang'an.

Zhang Xun's memorial was very humble, he thought that Nan Jiyun and Zhangwu were his old generals, he was not strict in discipline and put the responsibility on himself, and he was willing to use his resignation as a guarantee to let the court forgive Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu.

The atmosphere of the imperial court became subtle again. Before Shi Siming besieged Luoyang, it was Zhang Xun who insisted on defending the city, which withstood the situation in Luoyang.

The imperial court has not given credit to Zhang Xun, but if the world is pacified, Zhang Xun's credit is only inferior to that of Guo Ziyi.

The courtiers discovered that Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu were Zhang Xun's old generals, and the atmosphere in the court became more subtle.

Not long after the news of Zhang Wunan Jiyun's killing of Shi Chaoyi reached Chang'an, Shi Siming issued another letter of surrender.

On the surrender form this time, Shi Siming proposed similar conditions to the previous one, but he would surrender to the Tang court only if he demanded that the court severely punish Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu!
Shi Siming even stated in the surrender form that if Datang disagreed with his conditions, he would commit suicide and go to Zizhou to avenge his son Shi Chaoyi.

This time, the even more chaotic court situation dropped a heavy bomb. The court's debate changed from whether to accept Shi Siming's surrender to how to deal with Nan Jiyun and Zhang Wu.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple and Yushitai all launched a heated debate on whether Nanzhang and his wife had violated the law of the Tang Dynasty.

From jurisprudence and laws to precedents of military operations, they were dug out from old papers, and these discussions also spread to the Imperial College. Yan Zhenqing also heard many students debating this matter.

Yan Zhenqing sighed, these debates between the government and the opposition are not important to him.

Whether the two of Nanzhang have meritorious deeds or deeds depends on the emperor's attitude.

Moreover, based on Yan Zhenqing's understanding of Shi Siming, this current hero probably didn't care so much about his son, and he might still use the topic to test the attitude of the Tang court.

If the imperial court really dealt with Nanzhang and the two, then Shi Siming could go ahead and put forward more surrender conditions.

If the imperial court did not dispose of Nanzhang, but instead praised them, then Shi Siming might not surrender, and would fight to the death with the Tang court.

Yan Zhenqing picked up the pen and wrote his strong words on the paper. He resolutely opposed the court to accept Shi Siming's surrender. If that's the case, what are the people who died fighting the two Anshi thieves?
Shi Siming, who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty twice, can still occupy a high position. Those who resisted the two thieves for the sake of the Tang Dynasty have become a joke in the history books.

Yan Zhenqing wrote vigorously, but the situation in the court has gradually changed.

On July [-]th, Emperor Li Heng issued a decree to the Zhengshitang, requesting the Ministry of War to dismiss Nanzhang and his military posts and return to Chang'an to wait for participation.

The news reached Zhengshitang, and all the prime ministers expressed their opposition.

The emperor didn't let Nanzhang and the two write a letter to defend themselves, so they had to be relieved of their military posts first, which already showed the emperor's attitude.

Li Heng was even more displeased that there was no prime minister willing to use the seal in the political affairs hall. He directly bypassed the political affairs hall and asked Hanlin scholars to draft an edict, and then ordered the eunuchs to go to Qingzhou to proclaim the edict.

If it is an ordinary decree, the Zhengshitang can naturally refute it, but this is the decree for the emperor to deal with generals. In theory, the emperor is the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the emperor's order is a military order, so there is no problem with the decree.

In this way, Zhongzhi, who had not been confirmed by the Zhengshitang, but was not rejected and returned by the Zhengshitang, was rushed to Qingzhou with eight hundred miles under the watchful eyes of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

The imperial court fell into an eerie silence about how the emperor dealt with Nanzhang and the two. At this time, the Zhengshitang also reached an agreement, and put aside the debate on Shi Siming's surrender, and send people to negotiate with Shi Siming first.

For such an important negotiation, the prime minister was of course necessary. The Zhengshitang finally decided to send Cui Guangyuan, who was neutral in the matter of Shi Siming's surrender, to go to Xiangzhou to negotiate with Shi Siming, together with Yu Chaoen, the eunuch next to the emperor.

Just when all the court ministers thought that this debate was going to settle down.

The military governor of Longyou, the ambassador of the Northwest Defense, and Li Tan, the king of Yue, submitted letters to the court, and submitted them to the emperor through the Longyou Governor's Mansion and stayed in the backyard.

The king of Yue clearly opposed the court's acceptance of Shi Siming's surrender. In the end, the king of Yue even wrote:
"If Emperor Father accepts Shi Thief's surrender, I will ask for it myself!"

Shocked!

(End of this chapter)