A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 114
In the hall of Xiande.

As soon as the samurai Xun stood up, everyone knew that there was a good show to watch. After all, the Wu Erlang who the prince and Wei Zheng couldn't get over was the samurai Xun's henchman.

"Wu Aiqing, please tell me!"

The samurai cast a squinting glance at Wei Zheng, full of disdain, and went straight to play, "In the 11th year of the great cause of the previous dynasty, Emperor Yang visited the north and was caught by surprise by the Turkic Jieli Khan. He fled into Yanmen Pass and was surrounded by the breakout army. At that time, the minister was also in the army."

Li Shimin nodded.

At the time of the Yanmen Siege, he was only sixteen, and he was also ordered by King Qin.

"At that time, Fan Zigai, the fashion book, offered advice to Emperor Yang, occupying the fortified city to defeat his strength, and recruiting soldiers from all directions to help. He caressed the soldiers and ordered them not to conquer the Liao Dynasty again. He will be honored and everyone must strive for himself. Why worry?"

Fan Zigai, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, suggested that as long as the emperor issued an edict saying that he would no longer conquer Liaodong, and at the same time awarded generous rewards, as long as the soldiers bravely killed the enemy, they would be given the title of honor, and they would be able to defend until the reinforcements arrived. Don't worry.

So Yang Guang announced in front of all the officers and men that as long as you work hard to kill thieves, you will have no worries and riches. Duan, there are officials who benefit from it.

The reward for being directly promoted to the sixth-rank official was really attractive. At that time, hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry stormed Yanmen day and night, but the Sui army fought bravely and refused to fight day and night. There were countless casualties and none of them retreated.

Li Shimin sighed, "I was only sixteen years old when I was alone, and after receiving the edict, I followed Yun Dingfang from Hedong to King Qin. It is indeed very remarkable that Yanmen can survive."

The warrior Xun continued: "At that time, I was in Yanmen and suffered many serious injuries. After we repelled the Turks, we all thought that Emperor Yang would keep his promise to grant official rewards, but Prime Minister Su Wei thought the rewards were too heavy. Although Gai fought hard with reason, there were more than 500 guards in the end, but Emperor Yang only appointed [-] people as officials.

I waited desperately and fought for many days, but in the end I got nothing. I broke my promise and got fat, and the soldiers were all resentful. "

Two years later, Yang Guang was murdered by his guard Xiaoguo army in Jiangdu.

"After the rebels entered Chang'an and founded the country, His Majesty once told Yuan Cong that the Sui family was stingy with rewards, which is why they lost people's hearts."

From the beginning of the army, Li Yuan never hesitated to grant officials to nobles. He directly conferred the titles of princes on those heroes who were willing to attach themselves to the separatist side, and those who led troops to join them were all granted the titles of dukes. To the scattered officials, and to the captured Sui army, they were also given directly to the scattered officials.

This made Li Yuan go all the way into the Guanzhong, and the few rebels were greeted by more.

"Wu Huaiyu is the nephew of the minister's family, but today the minister is the country and His Royal Highness, and he has to stand up to refute Wei Zheng. The minister asked Wei Zheng, you were a Taoist priest in the previous dynasty, and then you were a small official under the tent of Cheng Yuanbao in Wuyang County. How many grades did you cast Li Mi as the secretary office? In the first year of Wude, you voted for the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial court appointed you as a fifth grade secretary, what merits do you have for accepting this position?"

"The imperial court sent you to appease Shandong. You were captured by Dou Jiande, but you were at ease as Dou Jiande's householder. After His Royal Highness defeated Dou Jiande, you entered the Tang Dynasty again. What merits did you have to be washed by the fifth-rank prince?"

A few words from the warrior Xun left Wei Zheng speechless, and it took him a long time before he blushed and said, "I persuaded Li Ji to lead his land back to the Tang Dynasty for the sake of the Tang Dynasty..."

The samurai snorted, turned to Li Shimin and said, "Your Highness just said well, the title of honorary officer is originally set up to reward meritorious service. Wei Zheng used his clever tongue to go everywhere in the early years, and the court can accept him. Now Wu Huaiyu The actual military exploits are there, but Wei Zheng opposes it everywhere, could it be that they are both Taoist priests, but they are also enemies?"

"According to Wei Zheng's words, the minister was originally just a team of soldiers from the Bingzhou government. The army started from the dragon, but after a few years, His Majesty bestowed upon the minister the Duke of Ying, shouldn't the minister also accept it? All the male servants, are they going to invite themselves to be nobles now?"

"Your Highness, the siege of Emperor Yangdi's Yanmen is only more than ten years away. Although the Shibi Khan passed away, the current Jieli Khan is his younger brother. , repeating the story of the Northern Wei Dynasty occupying the Central Plains,

In the past, Emperor Yang was stingy with rewards and refused to reward those who made meritorious deeds. In the following two years, Jiangdu was murdered, and the world was overthrown.

Does Wei Zheng want to be Solvay's second?Or do you want to harm my country of Tang Dynasty?
The minister and warrior Xun ask Your Highness to repel Wei Zheng and other courtiers who only know how to confuse the king with clever words. Now Jieli and Tuli have entered Jingzhou with [-] cavalry, and the swords are hanging above their heads. Under the leadership of the general manager, they finally won a big victory and eliminated the Turkic troubles in Longyou.

General Manager Chai was leading more than [-] victorious soldiers from Longyou to the Guanzhong battle for reinforcements. At this moment, Wei Zheng said that His Highness rewarded the soldiers of Longyou too generously, and asked His Highness to withdraw the award.

I don't know how everyone will feel if these news spread to Longyou, and to the ears of Longyou soldiers who are rushing to Guanzhong! "

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng for a long time.

"Wei Zheng, what else can you say?"

"I think meritorious service should be rewarded, but there is a limit to rewards and punishments. Although Wu Huaiyu has military merits, I think the reward is too generous. He can be awarded a baron, but his rank and duties should be carefully promoted. He has just entered the official position for less than a month. It's too much to go directly from the ninth rank to the fifth rank, if His Highness appreciates him, you can give him the scarlet-robed whitebait..."

Seeing Wei Zheng being so stubborn, Li Shimin frowned even tighter.

Unexpectedly, the warrior Xun stood up again at this time, "I think what Wei Zheng said has some truth. I am Wu Huaiyu's uncle, and I also feel that Wu Huaiyu is still too young to be rewarded too generously."

Wei Zheng, who had been punching indiscriminately before, retreated steadily, but this time he accepted it as soon as he saw it, and he deserved to be the hero of Taiyuan Yuanmou.

Li Shimin smiled, then turned to ask Zhongshuling Yuwen Shiji, "What does Mr. Yuwen think?"

Yuwen Shiji felt a little embarrassed, because they just said that Yang Guangjiang was killed, and the people who killed the king were their Yuwen family. Wenhuaji also established himself as the emperor of Xu State.

"Wu Erlang is young and promising, and he has indeed made great achievements. He should be rewarded heavily. He can be awarded the title of Baron of the Founding Kingdom. But he is young after all. I think it is not impossible to add a fifth-rank Guerrilla General, but the release of this product is slow. Take your time."

This old fox can not offend anyone.

"Ying Guogong is Huaiyu's father, he loves his children and descendants, so he will follow them alone." Li Shimin swept over the crowd, "Change Wu Huaiyu to be the founding man of Daling County, and confer the title of Xuan Yilang Sanguan under the seventh rank, Awarded eight times and transferred nine times to become a general."

The prince pondered for a moment.

"Remove him from the position of Sima in Weizhou, and still lead the hospital town general, and order him to be the head of the north gate of Beijing."

"Two hectares of land in Guanzhong, ten slaves, two horses, a hundred pieces of colorful colors, and a pair of silver vases."

"Wei Zheng." The Crown Prince called out his name, "Is this reward feasible?"

Li Shimin's words were already somewhat majestic, and Wei Zheng also knew that he had offended the crown prince today. If the warrior Xun hadn't stabbed him horizontally, he would not have cared about being tough with the prince to the end, but he was disturbed by the warrior Xun, and he would not object now. Reasonable, I can only nod now.

"Very well, Wei Zheng. There has just been a rebellion in Youzhou. There are also many former Yuanji ministries in Shandong and Hebei. You are familiar with them. I will send you to appease them. If there are any more turmoil in Hebei and Shandong, I will be alone when the time comes." You are asking, if you can appease Hebei and Shandong, Gu will reward you as a founding baron at that time, and you will do what you say!"

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin turned his head to look at the warrior Xun, "Duke Ying's admonition just now is very reasonable, and I have benefited a lot. I will reward you with a hundred pieces of silk!"

As a result, Datang added a young baron.

Daling County is Wenshui County, and it was renamed Xishouyang County because of the people who moved to Shouyang. The title given to Wu Huaiyu by the crown prince is because Wu Huaiyu's hometown is Wenshui, and his ancestors were not named Daling County. Mausoleum, and later was granted the title of Duke of Shouyang, and the warrior Xun had also been granted the title of Duke of Shouyang.

"Wei Zheng, please change this reward edict for me." Li Shimin didn't forget to hit Wei Zheng and ask him to personally rewrite the edict for Wu Huaiyu.

"Your Highness, drafting edicts and decrees is the job of Zhongshu Sheren, and the minister is an admonishing doctor, so this is not the job of a minister."

"You can do it for me."

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the others looked at the uncomfortable Wei Zheng, and they didn't sympathize with him. They insisted on contradicting the prince over such a trivial matter, and besides, he, the admonishing doctor, was a provincial official, and the samurai Xun, the servant of the Huang family, was the deputy provincial official. , isn't this uncomfortable?
Besides, when is it now, the crown prince rewards Wu Huaiyu, Xue Wanche, Chai Shao, etc., naturally it has a deep meaning.

Wei Zheng had no choice but to draft it himself.

He was awarded the founding baron of Daling County in Wuhuaiyu, added the honorary officer and general, and was awarded Xuan Yilang from the seventh rank of Jin Benpin. bags, rewarding servants with land, money and silk...

For a young man who has only been an official for less than two months, this promotion makes people unable to look directly at it.

Although this rank is only from the seventh rank, but he has just ascended from the ninth rank before, which means that he has been promoted to the seventh rank in a row. One jumping skill can only be directly promoted to the second rank, which is equivalent to three and a half jumping skills.

With the addition of Ba Zhuan Xun, he became a general of the third rank.

Fortunately, the third level was omitted in this product, and the general guerrilla general was not added in the end.

Even if it is the lowest rank among the [-]th-rank general number set up in the seventh year of Wude, it is still the fifth rank.

Now Wu Huaiyu has a rank-[-] honorary officer from the seventh rank, and a founding baron from the fifth rank, and a sixth-rank minister.

In particular, the prince's command to head the North Gate actually meant that he didn't have to stay in Weizhou at all, but that he would go to the North Gate Camp in Chang'an to serve as the general of the Imperial Army and the guards on duty.

The emperor is close to Yuan Cong.

Wei Zheng, who was also a Taoist priest, had mixed feelings when he finished writing this edict.But he can't care about this now. He has to start thinking about how to go to Hebei and Shandong to appease and build the old Yuanji Ministry. This task is not easy. If he can't do it well, His Highness the Crown Prince will probably punish him severely.

Think about it, I have been working under Yuanbaozang’s account for 13 years since Daye, and now it has been ten years. I have experienced Yuanbaozang, Li Mi, Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, Li Jiancheng, and now Li Shimin. Although he also has a fifth-rank official position, he has never had a sense of belonging. , Never got anyone's real trust.

I can't help being a little envious of Wu Erlang, who practiced Taoism in the mountains for nine years, and he was specially appointed as an official when he came out of the mountain. In just over a month, he has already been granted the fifth rank of the county male.

At the end of the court meeting, Li Shimin discussed matters with Fang Du and others.

"Gu intends to reset the Military Weapons Supervision. After Wu Huaiyu returns to Beijing, let him secretly build a new workshop outside of Jiafang and Nufang, specializing in the development of palm mines for military use."

The Military Weapons Supervision was established at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and then it was once included in the Shaofu Supervisor. Wude was abolished in seven years, restored in eight years, and abolished again in nine years.

In the past, the Military Weapons Supervisor also set up weapons supervisors in various departments. The weapon supervisors were from the eighth rank, and the chief officer of the military weapons supervisor was from the fourth rank, which was lower than the chief officer of the Shaofu Supervisor, who was in charge of all kinds of skills, from the third rank.

The military department is mainly under the Nufang Department and the Jiafang Department. The Nufang mainly produces bows, crossbows, arrows, etc., and the latter is mainly responsible for making armor. Both of them have many workshops and workshops.

After discovering the power of Palm Thunder, Li Shimin planned to use him on a large scale to deal with the Turks.For this reason, Li Shimin didn't care at all about Chai Shao's plan to stay with Wu Huaiyu to guard Yanjingzhai in Weizhou. A mere bit of salt can't be compared with Zhangxinlei, a secret weapon that may become a secret weapon against Turks.

"A founding baron and a general honor, plus this product from the seventh rank, Wu Erlang will not be unhappy, right?"

Fang Du and others believed that Wu Huaiyu would kneel down with joy to thank Prince Hong En after receiving this edict.

　In the reign of Wude, he was transferred to the honorary officer general nine times, and to the top general at the tenth time.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)