A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1076: Losing Prestige
After morning,
Zhang Ananda stopped Xue Wanche,

"Your Majesty has issued a decree, leaving General Xue to prepare the report."

"Supervisor Zhang, what's the matter?"

Zhang Ah Qian said, "Our family is just the ones who pass the decrees, we don't know about the others."

Xue Wanche's face twitched. He didn't expect Ananda to be so disrespectful, but he still had to smile at him to please him. Ma Zhoujin had previously remonstrated that the emperor was too kind to his personal attendants and conferred titles on them, so the emperor withdrew the titles given to some of his personal attendants such as musicians, archers, and doctors.

Even the titles of several great eunuchs were taken back.
But only Zhang Anan's Dukedom of Wenshan County remained untouched.

Who doesn’t know that Eunuch Zhang has a high status in the palace?

Xue Wanche followed Zhang Anan all the way to Wude Hall. Eunuch Zhang didn't say a word to him on the way, which made Xue Wanche even more uneasy.

In the Hall of Wude,

Li Shimin stood in front of the screen with his hands behind his back. The large screen was full of names, all of which were the names of the governor and governor.
"Your Majesty, Xue Wanche, pays homage to your Majesty."

Most of this information was collected and reported by the Emperor's Third Secret Service.

Li Shimin took out a stack of stamps from the imperial case.
"The only people who care for my people are governors and governors. The only people who command my troops are generals and captains. I often write names on the screen, sit and lie down and watch them, and note the good and evil deeds of their officials in their names. Come down to prepare for reward and punishment.”

Furthermore, Xue Wanche is a person he doesn’t remember at all. He and his father were in Youzhou during the late Sui Dynasty. After his father died at the hands of Dou Jiande, their brothers followed Luo Yi and later followed Luo Yi to join the Tang Dynasty. Then Xue Wanche joined Jiancheng's command. During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he was unable to defeat Xuanwu Gate and led troops to attack the Prince of Qin's Mansion, almost killing Li Shimin's wife and children.

However, in the army, he was proud of his talents and could not get along well with his colleagues.

"Well, I still remember that in the ninth year of Wude, when I first came to the throne, the Turks Jieli sent an army of 200,000 horses to drink from the Wei River, and their troops came to Chang'an City.

There are densely packed names written on the various prefectures and prefectures on the map of the Tang Dynasty. If you look closely, there are some notes under each name.
Some of them couldn't be written down, so they put a note on them.

I will never forget it."

And when the emperor brought out these memorials today, he had already had the Third Division secretly investigate them, and got the result that the impeachment of those memorials was basically true.

Xue Wanche raised his head and said, "That is my map of the Tang Dynasty."

The emperor still gave Xue Wanche face. In fact, many memorials impeached Xue Wanche for being arrogant, domineering, domineering, and even beating and scolding soldiers.

Li Shimin turned around and looked at Xue Wanche, who was still standing there.

The emperor even asked officials of fifth rank and above to select those who could serve as county magistrates for selection.

The small characters under this name are all the deeds of these governors and governors during their tenure, both good and bad.

Xue Wanche has the ability, but to put it bluntly, he is brave but has no plan.

"Do you know what this is?"

This is not what one person said, but many generals wrote letters of impeachment, especially the accusations of Pei Xingfang, who had served as Xue Wanche's deputy general for many times, and the emperor had to take it seriously.

Later, he fled into Zhongnan Mountain. Although Li Shimin was generous and let things go by the wayside, and still used him more to recruit him back to the court, Xue Wanche served as Chai Shao's deputy for many years.

Eleven years have passed, and Jieli has turned into a handful of loess, and the Turkic Khanate no longer exists, but our Tang Dynasty has become very powerful.
These are all the contributions of civil servants and military generals.

Xue Wanche was the emperor's brother-in-law-to-be, a duke of the country, Shangzhu Kingdom, and general Zuo Yulin. His rank meant that he did not need to kneel down to worship the emperor.

"Someone wrote a letter saying that you were too arrogant in the army and had a bad relationship with the generals,"

The emperor still had his back to the palace door, standing with his hands behind his hands and looking at the screen.

Then, Chai Shao and Xue Wanche both secretly supported Wei King Li Tai.

Now that there is a sudden storm, of course there is no storm without fire.

For example, Xue's deputy general Pei Xingfang, whose surname was Pei, was of the same generation, and Wu Huaiyu's student Pei Xingjian came from the middle family house of the Pei family in Hedong.

It is impossible to say that Pei Xingfang's impeachment had nothing to do with Wu Huaiyu.

In fact, it was through his student Pei Xingjian that Wu Huaiyu contacted his clan brother Pei Xingfang, and then he collected some of Xue Wanche's mistakes in the military and wrote a letter of impeachment.

Li Shimin sent three departments to conduct a secret investigation and concluded that the impeachment was true.

"Wanche, am I treating you well?" the emperor asked.

When Xue Wanche saw the stack of bullets in the emperor's hand and heard these words again, he felt inexplicably palpitated and immediately fell to his knees.

Dare not say a word.

"You followed King Xiyin in the beginning, but I later put the past behind you and continued to use you more. You also made a lot of contributions to Zhenguan, and I didn't treat you badly. Now you are also the general of Zuo Yulin and the Duke of the country. I even rewarded you. Don't make your son a county prince.

I also gave you the royal sister’s marriage as a continuation,
You said, isn’t it enough? "

Xue Wanche kowtowed quickly.

"All right."

The emperor saw him knocking loudly, waved his hand after a while, and stopped impatiently.

"I have recorded and discarded it, and I don't want to offend you," the emperor said, throwing the stack of bullets directly into the stove aside and burning them all.

Xue Wanche banged his head again and expressed his gratitude.

"Reform well. If you are not in harmony with the generals, how can you lead the troops to fight? You should be like brothers to the generals, and love the soldiers like sons."

Li Shimin asked him to get up.
Looking at this guy, he couldn't help but get a headache when he thought that his sister, Princess Danyang, had often come to him recently to cry and complain that she was unwilling to marry the stupid, old and ugly Xue Wanche.

"There is a vacancy for the governor of Puzhou. The capital of Puzhou is the junction of Guanzhong, Hedong and Henan. It is very important and must be guarded by important personnel."

The states in the Tang Dynasty were also divided into multiple levels. In addition to the general upper, middle and lower levels, there were also Fu, Fu, Xiong, Wang and Jing.

Mansion, that is, Yongzhou Mansion,
There are four auxiliaries, namely Tongzhou, Huazhou, Qizhou in Guanzhong and Puzhou in Hedong Road, which are far inherited from the three auxiliaries of Jingzhao in the Han Dynasty, Fengyi on the left and Fufeng on the right. Puzhou is one of the four auxiliary states, and it is the left and right auxiliary state of Yongzhou.

Under the four assistants are the six heroes. Generally speaking, the residence of the emperor is Xiongzhou, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, Shaanzhou, Jiangzhou, Weizhou and Huaizhou.

After the four assistants and six heroes, there are still ten hopes.

Puzhou’s status is very high.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, it was even established as the central capital.

But at this time, asking Xue Wanche to be the governor of Puzhou was obviously a demotion.

The emperor said that he did not offend the minister, but the fact was that he still had to be demoted.

He is now General Zuo Yulin, General of the Beiya Forbidden Army, he is in the third rank, and he serves as the governor of Puzhou, but he is only in the third rank.

Not to mention being transferred from the capital to serve abroad.

"My lord, my lord," Xue Wanche's face turned red. After a long time, he still couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Let's go to Beiya to hand over the job first, and then go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to file a complaint. Puzhou is an important place, and the governor cannot be absent for a long time. He will leave Beijing to take up his post within three days, so don't delay."

Xue Wanche had no choice but to kowtow a few more times and withdraw.

When the wind outside the hall blew, the whole person's face turned ugly.

Xue Wanche was almost stunned by the stick. He hasn't come back to his senses yet. Who is it?

The emperor burned all the cartridges in front of him, and did not say who was impeaching him, but he still heard something from the emperor's words.

Definitely impeach the generals in the army, maybe even his colleagues or generals,
He was itching with hatred in his heart, but now that the punishment had been dealt with, he had to go to the Yulin Army in Beiya to hand over the military power, and then go to the Ministry of Personnel to report and lead the Puzhou governor to sue.

In the palace.

The emperor crossed out Xue Wanche's name at General Zuo Yulin's place.

Thought for a long time,
Li Shimin wrote a new name on it, Cheng Yaojin.

However, as a result, the governor of Youzhou was vacant again.

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In the afternoon,

Dine.

The prime ministers finished their discussions and enjoyed lunch. The officials of Guanglu Temple brought the food with the servants and put them on the table.

There are lamb shreds, lamb lung soup, and lamb cakes, and then three vegetarian dishes.

It is very delicately made. For example, this lamb belly dish is actually cut into thin strips. Each strip is cut into a length of more than a foot, and is seasoned and eaten cold.

Qiao Sheep Lung Soup is made from finely chopped sheep lungs, then boiled with a handful of scallions in black bean juice. It is a delicious soup that is very comfortable to eat when the weather is cold.

The mutton suo biscuit is somewhat similar to Gulouzi. One biscuit uses four taels of mutton, and also adds orange peel powder and pepper. Compared with Gulouzi, which uses one pound of mutton, this one is smaller.

Wu Huaiyu has a good appetite.
While eating,

Zhang Ananda is here,
"Your Majesty asked us to come and give some cherries to you gentlemen,"

Cherries are very rare this season and are extremely early-maturing varieties. Especially because of the cold spring this year, the early-maturing ones were not harvested.
The cherries given by the emperor were from the Wu family's tribute palace. They were early-ripening cherries in the greenhouse. They had escaped the cold spring and still ripened as early as expected.

Naturally, the first batch of cherries to be picked must go to the tribute palace first.

The emperor asked Zhang Anan to send some to the prime ministers.

Naturally, he had already eaten Wu Huaiyu’s own cherries.
But for the prime ministers, it is extremely rare to eat cherries during this season, especially this year.

People in the Tang Dynasty loved to eat cherries. Every cherry ripening season, various cherry banquets were held in Chang'an. Not only the emperor would hold cherry banquets, but noble officials would also hold cherry banquets to entertain relatives and friends.

Those wealthy nobles with cherry orchards would entertain guests directly in the cherry orchards and pick and eat them directly, which is the most fresh and heroic.

"Prime Minister Hou," Zhang Anan brought a plate of cherries to Hou Junji's table and smiled at him, which surprised Hou Junji.
This Duke Zhang was the most trusted eunuch around the emperor.
Hou Junji stood up quickly, bowed and bowed.
Zhang Ananda stepped aside and said, "Prime Minister Hou, I don't dare to take this seriously."

Wu Huaiyu smiled and looked at the prime minister next door, the imperial censor Li Daliang. Li Daliang looked at Wu Huaiyu and then at Hou Junji, thoughtfully.

"Prime Minister, please don't be rude." Although Li Daliang knew what Wu Huaiyu's look meant, he still stood up.

There are strict etiquette requirements when the prime minister eats in the hall or in the official hall. If he is disrespectful, the censor will correct him and he will be deprived of one month's salary for each offence.

As a prime minister, it is considered disrespectful for a Hou Junji to pay homage to an eunuch.

No matter how favored Zhang Anan is, he will still be just a eunuch, with a rank no higher than the third rank.

Hou Junji, as the prime minister who participated in the government affairs as the official minister, was of the third rank. How could the prime minister bow to lower-level officials?

Hou Junji was criticized by Li Daliang in public. He looked ugly and could not get off the stage.

But Zhang Anan looked like it had nothing to do with him.

Although the meal was sumptuous and included cherries gifted by the emperor, Hou Junji felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly, while Wu Huaiyu had a great appetite.

After the meal, Li Daliang did not let Hou Junji go. He immediately wrote a letter and submitted it to the emperor, impeaching Hou Junji for being seriously disrespectful.
The next day,

The emperor disposed of it,

Hou Junji took away one month's salary and fined him twenty catties of copper.

Although the punishment was not severe, it was a loud slap in the face for Hou Junji, who had not returned to the political hall to serve as prime minister for a hundred days, and his prestige was wiped out.

(End of this chapter)