A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 397 Although the king is not the king, the minister must not be the minister

The New Year is approaching, and the border is urgently reported.

Tuyuhun invaded Minzhou,

Li Daoyan, governor of Minzhou and Duke of Jiaodong County, reported that he had been repelled.

This incident was announced in the early court of the Golden Palace, which aroused the surprise of the courtiers.

It's not panic, but it's ridiculous.

The mission of Tuyuhun Fuyun Khan was still paying tribute in Beijing, and asked the emperor to marry him. Datang agreed to the marriage, but sent [-] horses, [-] sheep, [-] cattle and [-] camels each to Lanzhou for inspection. condition.

Unexpectedly, after the envoy hurriedly reported the conditions back to Qinghai, Fu Yun actually made this move.

This was to force Datang and his relatives by force, but it was a pity that Fu Yun was not strong enough and was repelled as soon as he sent troops.Even the one who repelled him was not a famous general. Li Daoyan was the eldest son of Huaian Wang Li Shentong, a young clan with no reputation before.

Li Daoyan was quite pragmatic, and he did not brag about his achievements in the report to the court. This time, there were actually more than ten thousand Tuyuhuns who came to attack, and they retreated after only a small battle, beheading only a hundred of the capital.

The leader of Tuyuhun was Fuyun Khan's youngest son Zun Wang, who had come to Beijing to ask for a marriage and was not allowed. This time he personally led his troops to conquer Minzhou, and shouted at Li Daoyan under the city. To pick.

Li Shimin laughed when he heard that.

"Li Junxian, governor of Tongzhou, governor of Guangping County, moved to General You Xiaowei, governor of Lanzhou,
Kuozhou Governor Jiuqie Luosheng, Weizhou Governor Wang Tiefo and other Longyou states cooperated with Li Daoyan and Li Junxian to drive the border. "

Not many people put Tuyuhun people in their eyes. If it weren't for the New Year's Eve, Li Shimin was ready to issue an order to gather troops to destroy Tuyuhun and capture Fu Yun alive in Chang'an.

There is no need to send high-level generals. It is enough to have Li Junxian to assist Li Daoyan, and then Liangzhou governor Yuwenshi and support from the side.

Any more reactions are due to Datang's lack of self-confidence.

Dare to show his teeth to Datang, and dare to force marriage?

Everyone just thought he was a joke.

After all, in the ninth year of Wude, the Turks invaded. At the most critical time, Jieli specially sent envoys to ask his biological mother's family, Tuyuhun, to send troops to the Tang Dynasty. , As a result, the Sui Dynasty wanted to marry the princess to him, but the premise was that he had to divorce his Tuyuhun wife first.

It was Tuli who asked Tuyuhun to marry the princess back then, and it was Tuli who divorced Tuyuhun's wife later. Tuli didn't regard Tuyuhun as a human being at all.

Jieli wanted to fight Datang, but he remembered his mother's family, and Fu Yun shamelessly agreed to send troops.But even if Turkic Yushe set up and Shaboluo set up two sets up, 10,000+ troops invaded from the west of Hexi, and Tuyuhun followed suit, he was still beaten by Chai Shao, throwing away his helmet and armor, and finally had to pay tribute and surrender.

It has only been more than a year now, the scar is healed and the pain is forgotten, and I want to try it again, can I do it?
Zuo Si Lang Zhong Di Huaidao came out of the class and asked to play.

"If you're talking about Tuyuhun, you don't need to open your mouth," Li Shimin stroked his beard.

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Pei Qiantong, the governor of Chenzhou and the founding father of Changshe County, and kill the old master. Adding the title of Governor of Xuzhou, treats him well, but Pei Qiantong has always been arrogant. Now that he is the governor of Chenzhou and named the male of Changshe County, he feels that the official is inferior. He tells people everywhere that he personally got rid of the Sui Dynasty. He started the Great Tang Dynasty, but the imperial court has failed him, so he feels resentful and forgetful towards the imperial court."

"I request Your Majesty to punish such unkind and resentful ministers who kill the Lord!"

Di Huaidao's impeachment was beyond everyone's expectations.

No one expected that at this time, someone would suddenly liquidate Pei Qiantong who killed Yang Guang, and it was Di Huaidao who came to impeach him.

Those who knew Di Huaidao's past thought it was normal.

Zuo Si Langzhong is a newly established official position not long ago. The deputy second of Shangshu Zuo Cheng, the fifth-rank position, is still a relatively powerful position. Before that, Di Huaidao was a member of the Criminal Ministry. It's just that the Ministry of Officials is in charge of minor officials. Yang Guang wants to patrol Jiangdu, and all officials are invited to go.

Even Du Yan was deeply impressed, and later recommended Di Huaidao to the court several times.

In the change of Jiangdu, Di Huaidao and many other officials also encountered great disasters and suffered a lot of displacement. He has always held a grudge against Yu Wenhua and other rebellious officials and thieves.

When Pei Qiantong voted to the Tang Dynasty, he brought troops and horses to the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Yu Wenhuaji led the army to fight against Dou Jiande in the north. When he was about to vote in the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan, in order to win people's hearts and win the world early, did not care about him killing the king, so he appointed him the governor of Xuzhou.

But how could he really trust this regicide, so with the unification of the world, his official position became smaller and smaller. From such an important position as the general manager of Xuzhou, he was transferred to the remote Chenzhou, Hunan Province as the governor.

There is only one false title of title, a man from Changshe County.

Pei Qiantong was very unconvinced, especially the group of people who killed the king together back then, most of them were better than him, such as Tang Fengyi, who is now the governor of Suzhou, Xue Shiliang is also the governor of Jiangzhou, and Niu Fangyu is also the governor of Laizhou. place.

Li Shimin was silent for a while.

"Let's have a discussion, gentlemen."

Wei Zheng was the first to go out and ask for a report, "Your Majesty, pardon is a blessing for a villain, but it is a misfortune for a gentleman. Two amnesties in a year will silence the good people, and raising bad grass will treat the good millet." Harmful, and the forgiveness of criminals will bring disaster to the good people, please Your Majesty be aware of the details and deal with it fairly."

Qin Qiong, who usually seldom speaks, also took the initiative to stand up, "Your Majesty, Pei Qiantong, Tang Fengyi, Niu Fangyu, Xue Liang, Yuan Li, etc., are in the last years of their careers, and they are in the ranks, or they are married for a generation. He, without thinking of loyalty and righteousness, was in Jiangdu and carried out murder against rebels. Although the matter is from the previous generation, the evils of the world have been discarded in the past and the present, so it is appropriate to set up a heavy code to encourage honest officials."

Qin Qiong's attitude inevitably made people feel a bit of revenge.

At that time, Qin Qiong started his family as a general of Duke Rongguo in the Sui Dynasty. Although he was only a personal guard of Lai Huer, but later his mother died of illness, and Lai Huer sent his own son to mourn on his behalf. After that, Qin Qiong kept his filial piety at home and never returned to Lai Huer's command, but Qin Qiong was very grateful to Lai Huer.

During the Jiangdu Incident, Lai Huer and ten sons loyal to Sui and Yang were killed by Yu Wenhua, Sima Dekan, Pei Qiantong, Tang Fengyi and others. Only the two youngest sons Laiji Laiheng in his hometown escaped the disaster.

Qin Qiong has always been brooding about this matter. When he was in Wagang, when he heard about it, he once set up an altar to worship the benefactor, and vowed to make trouble for them.Later, when Yu Wenhuaji went north, Qin Qiong and his brother Luo Shixin led an army to stop and beat Yu Wenhuaji hard.

Yu Wenhuaji turned north to Hebei, and was eventually killed by Dou Jiande, and most of his troops belonged to Wang Shichong or Li Yuan.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed,

Many people will do the same thing as beating a dog in the water.

Especially when someone impeached Pei Qiantong at this time, it was even more of a signal.

Smart people have already realized that this is the emperor's plan to cleanse those who killed the king and the rebellious ministers. Back then, the Supreme Emperor accepted them as a strategy of the powerful family to set the world at an early date.Now that the world has been settled, it is natural to liquidate these disloyal and unrighteous ministers.

Xiao Yu, the imperial historian, also stood up. He hated those people even more. He was the younger brother of Empress Yang Guang.

"Your Majesty, Pei Qiantong has been the guard of the Sui Emperor's Palace since he was 13 years old. Later, he became a confidant. He also actively worked hard to save the king, and he was considered loyal and meritorious at the beginning."

The so-called high merit is nothing more than support and savior, and Pei Qiantong has both.

But the crime is nothing more than treason, and he did it.

Seeing that the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, he and Sima Dekan were both the commanders of the Forbidden Army Xiaoguo, but he began to plan to escape from Jiangdu.

Zhong Lang captured Dou Xian who escaped and executed him.

His death forced those who wanted to escape to unite in secret to prepare for the regicide and rebellion, and they let go. In the end, they led by Yu Wenhuaji and launched the Jiangdu Mutiny together, killing Yang Guang and then returning north.

Yang Guang treated Pei Qiantong really well, but he still betrayed him in the end.

And if Pei Qiantong keeps a low profile, maybe the liquidation will not come so early, but he just killed the old master, and now he is resentful towards the new master, then he is seeking his own death.

Under Di Huaidao's first attack, many ministers followed closely, wanting to beat the dog in the water.

In less than a while, there was only one voice left in the court, and these unfaithful and unrighteous kingslayers were executed.

Even the dead Yu Wenhuaji, Yuwen Zhiji, Sima Dekan and others should not be let go, and their descendants should be imprisoned and not hired.

A list was soon drawn up.

They are all the regicides of Jiangdu Change, Yu Wenhuaji, Yuwen Zhiji, Sima Dekan, Pei Qiantong, Meng Jing, Yuan Li, Yang Lan, Tang Fengyi, Niu Fangyu, Yuan Min, Xue Liang, Ma Ju, Yuan Wu Da, Li Xiaoben, Li Xiaozhi, Zhang Kai, Xu Hongren, Linghu Xingda, Xi Defang, Li Fu and other 36 people.

Wu Huaiyu has been watching quietly.

Today's scene must have been planned secretly. Di Huaidao led the charge, then Zhang Liang followed, and Xiao Yu and others helped out.

Wei Zheng may not have participated in the planning in advance, but with his temperament, such things will definitely step on two feet.

As for Qin Qiong, he probably didn't know about it beforehand.

There is a high probability that this matter was originally planned by Du Yan, but before he could start it, he died of illness. After all, everyone knew that Di Huaidao was his man.

Of course, it is also possible that Zhang Liang, the commander of the six sects, initiated it. If it was him, then it must have been a secret order.

If you don't settle it early and don't settle it later, if you do it at this time, there is a high probability that it will still be the same as now that Li Shimin has sat firmly on the dragon chair, so he started to eliminate some cancers.

Why did Pei Qiantong get the surgery first?

First, this guy didn’t know how to live or die, and he went around saying that he destroyed the Sui Dynasty, opened the Tang Dynasty, made great contributions to the dynasty, and then thought the court gave him a low rank. In the list, among those who are still alive, although Pei Qiantong is now a low official, he was also the main leader when he killed the king.

Pull him out first to determine the nature, and the latter will naturally have a benchmark.

There was a person in the hall trembling.

That is the elder brother of Yuwen Zhaoyi, the harem of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, who was once the eldest son-in-law of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhua, the king killer, and Yuwen Shiji, the younger brother. The governor of Liangzhou also added General Zuowei. He didn't expect that the palace would suddenly discuss this matter today.

Although everyone tacitly did not add Yuwen Shiji's name to the list that was drawn up, but at this time, life and death are just a thought.

thump.

Yuwen Shiji knelt down to the emperor and began to plead guilty.

Then please resign from all officials.

Li Shimin watched Yuwen Shiji condescendingly for a long time.

Yuwenshi and Shuangku Zhanzhan, their backs are all wet, the life and death of the Poyetou family is now all in the emperor's mind.

At this time, Prime Minister Wang Gui stepped forward.

"Your Majesty, I believe that although Pei Qiantong and others killed the old lords, now that the dynasty has changed, they have already voluntarily surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and contributed to the stability of the world. Now they have not committed any major mistakes and killed them. It's not appropriate, please think twice, Your Majesty."

He reminded the emperor that killing them now would inevitably lead to the suspicion of crossing the river and demolishing bridges, and it would easily cause panic among the old officials of the Sui Dynasty, just like the trembling former prime minister Yuwen Shiji kneeling in the hall now.

At the beginning when Pei Qiantong and others voted for the Tang Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor issued an edict specifically saying that they had meritorious service in killing the faint king Yang Guang, but now they say they are guilty. Isn't this contradictory?

And if you pursue those who killed Yang Guang today, will you pursue Yuanji's subordinates tomorrow?
Li Shimin stood in the hall with his back on his back.

After a long time, he said to all the ministers, "Although the emperor is not the emperor, the ministers must not be the ministers."

"Pei Qiantong, Emperor Yang was one of the old left and right, and he was personally the leader of the chaos. We respect rewards and righteousness, how can we still make the people teach the customs?"

"The positioning of the heaven and the earth, the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers are manifested, the humble and the high are old, and the way of human relations is written. It is the use of honest customs to form the world. Although the chaos is restored, the master may be dim, the wind is strong, and the fragrance is endless. Cut one's heart and burn one's body, and go as far as home.

Doesn't a husband love a body of seven feet and value a life of a hundred years?Forgiveness is due to the righteousness of the monarchs and ministers, and the famous teachings are the first, so it is possible to understand the great festival at that time and establish a clear breeze behind you.

Who can bear the evil in the world?
It is advisable to burn the head of Yizong to show the great slaughter.But the times are different, and the pardons are repeated, so they can be punished lightly. "

After hearing this, Wu Huaiyu couldn't help saying double standards to Li Shimin, really double standards.

Their old Li family is also a courtier of the Sui Dynasty, or a relative. When they rebelled, they called Yang Guang old boy useless. But now let's start talking about whether a king is not a king, but a minister must not be a minister.

What is the positioning of the world, and the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers is manifested.

Even if you sit on this dragon chair, whether you are unconscious or aware, no one can be unfaithful to you.

Isn't this a pure double standard?

But whoever sits in that position has the same virtue, so there is nothing to say.

But when Wang Gui came forward to persuade him, Li Shimin was surprised that he could brake, or maybe this time Li Shimin didn't plan to clean them all in one go.

The emperor said that he should be dealt with lightly, and let the ministers discuss the disposal again.

So Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui made a move.

It is suggested that Pei Qiantong should be demoted from the ranks, be expelled from the ranks of the people, and go home for self-reflection. cleared.

This treatment can be said to be very light.

None were killed.

After all, more than half of the list of 36 people is still alive.

Not only the governor, but also the governor, the official title is actually not low.

For example, Tang Fengyi, the governor of Suzhou, was originally a general of the Xiaoguo Forbidden Army, but now he is the governor of Suzhou. The final punishment he proposed was to be relegated to the position of governor of Guangzhou.

This Tang Fengyi is familiar with Huaiyu, the head of the Tang family, one of the six wealthy families in Lingzhou, and the half-brother of Tang Fengxiao, a Kunlun slave. Wu Huaiyu even took Tang Liuniang as his concubine in Lingzhou.

A group of regicides, the governor demoted the chief governor of the governor's mansion or Sima, and the governor demoted the prefect governor Shi or Sima, and was transferred from the important state to the inland or Lingnan.

Huaiyu savored it carefully.

Well, after the lenient treatment this time, in fact, many important positions have been vacated, and some hidden dangers have been solved. I have to say that the emperor's methods are powerful.

With a sudden attack, Zi Dian started to thunder violently, but in the end, there was only thunder and no rain, but he succeeded in transferring those disloyal kingslayers who were not his confidantes and unrighteous, away from these more important positions.

A master fights, and it really kills him.

Huaiyu was so impressed.

Of course, he also believed that although Pei Qiantong and Tang Fengyi escaped a catastrophe today, they will be liquidated again sooner or later. Next time, they will definitely not die.

(End of this chapter)