A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 386

Qiu Xinggong is Li Shimin's confidant.

That was the old brother who had sacrificed his life to save Li Shimin more than once on the battlefield, so Qiu Xinggong made many mistakes, no matter how severely he was impeached by the officials, at most he would be dismissed from office and recovered within three to five months.

"Du Jingai?"

Li Shimin was surprised after hearing this.

When Du Yan died of illness, Li Shimin personally presented him as a posthumous posthumous posthumous title, You Pushe, the Minister of State, with the posthumous title Xiang.

For Du Yan, Li Shimin is grateful, although he is a prime minister, and holds two important positions as a royal official and official secretary, but has no reputation for cleanliness, and he has always been at odds with Changsun Wuji and Du Ruhui.But Li Shimin's employment of people has its own special features.

Making good use of people's strengths, it was Fang Xuanling who ignored Du Ruhui's objection and insisted on Li Shimin recruiting Du Yan into the Qin Palace. Good at intrigue and scheming, if Li Jiancheng is recruited, it will definitely be very dangerous for Li Shimin.

When Du Yan was serving as Minister of the Ministry of Officials under Wang Shichong, he performed very well in this respect.

Later, Li Shimin personally recruited Du Yan, and Du Yan also lived up to Li Shimin's expectations. The Yang Wengan incident in the seventh year of Wude was planned by Du Yan.

At that time, Li Yuan went to Renzhi Palace in the northern suburb of Chang'an to escape the summer heat, and Jiancheng stayed behind in the capital, followed by Shimin Yuanji. Then suddenly Jiancheng secretly communicated with Yang Wenqian, the governor of Gyeongju, to smuggle armor for rebellion.

At that time, Li Yuan was furious and detained Li Jiancheng, and even personally told Li Shimin that he would abolish Jiancheng and make him the prince.

This matter is complicated and confusing. Yang Wenqian sent armor secretly to the Jiancheng East Palace, but the general in charge of escorting it ran to the palace to inform the emperor. Li Yuan sent an envoy to summon Yang Wenqian, but the envoy went to recruit Yang Wengan to face the saint, but Yang Wenqian was forced to rebel. .

It's just a pity that this is a very good design. After Li Shimin quickly quelled the rebellion, Li Yuan went back on his word. Not only did he not keep his promise to make Li Shimin the prince, but he also exiled many confidantes from the East Palace and Prince Qin's Mansion, including Wang Yu, People like Wei Ting and Du Yan.

The Yang Wengan incident was a key event in the struggle between Li Shimin and Jiancheng that year. There was no room for relaxation between the two brothers, and the secret fight turned into an open one. the leads.

Although Li Shimin was not able to recall Du Yan again until after the success of Xuanwumen, but since then, in just over a year, Du Yan's official position has been promoted again and again, from Doctor Yushi to Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and then participated in the military affairs. Political affairs can be described as very special.

All this is because Du Yan is good at power and strategy. After Li Shimin seized the throne, he used him to supervise the officials, and he also performed very well.

Du drowned early, Li Shimin was very sad.

He specially let his son not be degraded to attack the noble, and also rewarded a lot of money.

He also knew that Du Yan's eldest son was weak and sick, but he never thought that Du Jing'ai would do such a thing.

The person who can report is Qiu Xinggong, Li Shimin has no choice but to believe it.

"Call Zhang Liang."

The emperor's face was ugly, and he immediately summoned Zhang Liang to see him.

"You immediately bring someone to bring Du Jing'ai."

"And the warlock hidden in his home."

Wu Huaiyu said, "Your Majesty, I request that the two daughters of the family be brought into the palace so that the quack magician can look at them."

Qiu Xinggong said that Du Jingai found a quack sorcerer and taught him that Wu Huaiyu's eldest daughter would rule the world in the future, but the sorcerer had never seen Wu Huaiyu's daughter.

Huaiyu brought her daughter to the palace, and when the time comes to meet the sorcerer face to face, the sorcerer must not even know who Wu Yingluo is.

"Bring in all the children of the samurai family, including Huaiyi, and the samurai Yu, samurai Yi, samurai, and samurai Leng, let all the children under one year old be brought in, let the warlock take a good look at it, and see if he can recognize who he said That child." Li Shimin said.

Wu Huaiyu didn't know if the emperor said this to test the sorcerer, or if he really wanted to see the faces of the children of the Wu family and see if there was anyone from the heroine Chang Chenyu.

But Wu Huaiyu is not afraid.

While waiting for someone.

Qiu Xinggong was not idle either, he reported to the emperor many problems of Du Yan during his lifetime, and Du Jingai's immorality, why he had to eat Zihe carts every day, and hundreds of pairs a year, why did he have to eat every season? Congratulations on accepting a son, those women who were brought into Du's family could not live for three years and so on.

"I heard that no one in the capital was willing to send their daughter to Du's house for the sick young man. Over the years, the daughters Du Jing loved for Chongxi were all brought from the ghost caves in the south of the city. Some were bought, and some were said to be the Ghost Cave was kidnapped and sold to Du Jingai,

In the past two years, Du Jing'ai has not only eaten Zihe Che, but it is rumored that he even got a baby still in the placenta..."

There is a flavored medicine in traditional Chinese medicine called deer fetus. The doe in the late pregnancy is hunted, and the fetus is taken out by caesarean section, and it is used as medicine together with the afterbirth and fetal fluid.

Some people say that the secret recipe that Du Jingai has been taking for the past two years is because the fetuses that died after dystocia were taken out of the afterbirth and made into medicine. Some people say that Du Jingai raised many pregnant women in ghost caves, and after the late pregnancy, they will be directly taken by caesarean section , secretly made into medicine to take.

This secret medicine is mainly used to nourish the kidney and strengthen yang, tonify deficiency and generate essence, and is used to treat deficiency of essence and blood, consumptive fatigue and so on.

Deer fetus plus Ziheche, together with angelica, rehmannia glutinosa, donkey-hide gelatin, etc., are famous medicines.

And Du Jingai is a deer fetus plus a human fetus.

Qiu Xinggong didn't need evidence either, he just opened his mouth and said, all kinds of gossip, gossip, all kinds of gossip, Wu Huaiyu was disgusted by what he heard, anyway, in Lao Qiu's mouth, this Du Jingai is really wicked, It's like an evil ghost in the world, doing things like giving birth to a child without an asshole.

He even said that the main reason why the virgins he accepted could not live for three years was that in the end these women were all taken by caesarean section, and Du Jingai even ate his own children.

This guy really dares to say that he doesn't need any evidence at all, and all rumors are based on his mouth.

Li Shimin frowned, but he didn't reprimand him. This is not a trial in court.

If you listen at the same time, you will understand. You should listen to all kinds of information.

As for whether it is right or wrong, just verify it.

The emperor's people picked up the Wu family's children under one year old, Huaiyu's five children, Huaiyi's three, Samurai Ke had three more, and a bunch of the four brothers' family of Samurai Xun.

The emperor looked at the nannies and children all over the hall, and couldn't help but lamented the prosperity of the Wu family.

Especially Samurai Leng, half of the children in the palace belong to his family, he himself has four children under one year old, and his sons and grandchildren also have quite a few.

Master Wu Huaiyu has three, and there are also eleven, which is amazing.

After all, this is not all, but those under one year old,

Zhang Liang brought Du Jingai and the quack warlock together, and the emperor asked Du Jingai to wait outside the hall, and then let the warlock come in, and asked him to meet the children of the Wu family.
Let him tell which one is the eldest daughter of Wu Huaiyu who has dragon eyes and a phoenix neck, who must be the heroine of the world.

That sorcerer is just a charlatan, although he also knows some physiognomy, but the so-called dragon eyes and phoenix neck must be the heroine of the world was taught by Du Jingai, and he was not even ready to spread it to the outside world, but he was taken to the palace by the emperor middle.

As soon as he entered the hall, he was already trembling with fear.

Facing the hall full of babies, he couldn't even tell which was a boy and which was a girl, and how could he know which was Wu Huaiyu's eldest daughter, no one else had ever seen him.

The emperor yelled, and he knelt down directly.

Kowtow like pounding garlic, under the strong aura and majesty of the emperor, the liar will recruit everything.

He said that he was kidnapped by the Du family, and the Du family took advantage of him for bluffing and deceiving. If he refused to cooperate, they would send him to Lingnan, or even put him to death in prison. He had no choice but to cooperate.Du Jing'ai promised that as long as he cooperates, he will be given a thousand coins after the matter is completed, and let him go to Yangzhou to fly far away.

"Ask Du Jing'ai to come in."

Du Jingai blew the cold wind outside the hall for a long time, he was already sick and coughed continuously.

The emperor asked Du Jing'ai to confront the warlock.

Facing the warlock's full confession, Du Jing'ai was very calm, saying that he didn't know him at all, and he didn't have any of the things the man claimed, and it was all nonsense.

Although he completely denied it, the person was brought from his house.

Li Shimin was disappointed with him.

"Why did you fabricate the prophecy to frame the Wu family?"

Du Jingai just kept coughing, but didn't answer anything.

This tuberculosis is indeed very serious. At this time, knowing that no matter whether he recruits or not, he will not be able to get rid of the crime, so it is better not to say anything.

Not to mention, that is to take all the crimes on himself.

"Du Jing'ai, do you know that you have acted so boldly and recklessly, the crime is heinous, it is the crime of ransacking your home and destroying your family?"

Du Jingai knelt down and kowtowed, but still did not say a word.

"Zhang Liang, put him in prison pending trial."

"Take someone to Du's house to search for evidence."

Qiu Xinggong asked for an order, "I request you to go and search together."

Li Shimin waved his hand and let him go with him.

"Send all the children of the Wu family back. Boys will be rewarded with jade, and girls will be rewarded with gold."

Only the emperor and Wu Huaiyu were left in the palace.

Li Shimin felt a little tired and tired.

Now that many facts are in front of us, it can be basically confirmed that the so-called prophecy is actually that Du Jingai and others framed and attacked Wu Huaiyu behind the scenes, and they are all fake.

Du Jingai, the eldest son of Du Yan, and Chai Lun, the second younger brother of Chai Shao, have surfaced.

As for the others, there is no definite evidence yet, pending investigation.

"Your Majesty, I thought it might be because I attacked the ghost city in the south of the city, which touched their interests and offended them, so I deliberately planned revenge, but I didn't expect that they would use this method."

"I'm wronged, I will definitely investigate and find out, and give you an explanation."

It was found out that the thorn in the emperor's heart was removed, otherwise Li Shimin would be in trouble day and night, and it would be difficult to fully trust Wu Huaiyu and the Wu family, even Li Junxian, the general of Zuo Wuwei, the Duke of Wuchang County, no longer trusted him.

This method is indeed too bad.

The emperor asked Huaiyu to accompany him around the palace to make up for the unfamiliarity caused in recent days.

"You have endured these grievances in recent days, but you can still take the overall situation into consideration and still do your best to relieve the disaster victims, manage the security of the capital and other affairs very well, which is rare.

The bond you suggested before is now being tried by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the effect is not bad. "

The emperor gave Wu Huaiyu a lot of affirmation, and proposed that Huaiyu should also serve as the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and judge Duzhi.

Duzhi is one of the four divisions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Duzhi is a very important department to control the income and expenditure of military and state expenses, plan financial resources and allocate materials, and control funds within means.

The doctor in the department, Yuanwailang, is in charge of it, the doctor is judged by the judge, and the member is outsourced by the doctor, and the president of the minister is in charge of the case.

The emperor asked Wu Huaiyu to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Judgment Duzhi, that is, to be in charge of the Duzhi Division, and he must sign after reading and signing in and out of the division.

Among the four divisions of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Duzhi Division is in charge of finance and taxes, and the Household Division is in charge of household registration, land and population. One of these two divisions is equivalent to the Ministry of Finance and the other is equivalent to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Although the Duzhi Division is not the head of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in terms of power, it is still very important to control the money bag. Wu Huaiyu, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has clearer responsibilities when judging Duzhi. The entire Duzhi Division is completely up to him. .

He was exempted from serving as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment before, and now he is serving as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Judgment Branch. This is not only compensation, but also because the emperor saw the feasibility of the bond, and planned to ask Wu Huaiyu to contribute more to assist Shangshu Daizhou to complete this matter.

When he was about to leave the palace, Zhang Liang hurried over.

"Your Majesty, Du Jing'ai committed suicide in prison." In winter, Zhang Liang was sweating on his forehead. The prisoner who had just been handed over to him died in prison within an hour.

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment.

He looked at Wu Huaiyu, "Erlang, what do you think should be done?"

"Debts from life and death have been eliminated. Your Majesty, please think of Du Xianggong's merits and stop pursuing the Du family."

Wu Huaiyu said that he would not pursue the Du family, but he did not say that he would not pursue Du Jing'ai. He spoke nicely, but he did not forgive that guy.

The emperor asked him how to deal with it, and it could be seen that the emperor originally wanted to pay off the debt after death, so he just exposed it, but Wu Huaiyu said that the emperor was not so good.

(End of this chapter)