A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 981 Abdication
Yong'anfang,
Duke Zheng's Mansion.

Wu Siniang welcomed her husband Wei Erlang into the west courtyard, "It's early to finish class today,"

Wei Shuyu took off the Thousand Ox Sword, placed it on the stand, opened his hand, and the maid came over to take off his official robe.

"Today when I was on duty in the East Palace, I heard about something. I heard that the saint issued an edict to give the daughter of Zheng Renji, a doctor in the Treasury, to be the teacher's concubine?"

"Well, that's what happened. When I went to my second brother's house in Xuanyangfang yesterday, I happened to meet someone from the palace delivering the order."

Wei Shuyu was surprised, "I thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true. Isn't this too strange?"

Wu Yuwan simply told her husband what she knew.
By the time the Wei family had dinner,
Wei Shuyu told his father Wei Zheng about this matter.

As the prime minister and the minister in charge of the province, Wei Zheng certainly knew about this.

"Playing the piano randomly," Wei Zheng looked very unhappy and directly expressed his dissatisfaction with this matter in front of his wife and children. "I have already written to the saint and asked him to withdraw his decree. This is too inappropriate."

Mrs. Pei said to her husband angrily, "This is just a trivial matter. Why do you have to hinder it at every turn?"

But the emperor insisted on having his own way, was very domineering, and would not listen to any opinions.

Mrs. Pei glanced at her second daughter-in-law, and then said to Wei Zheng, "Drinking your wine, what does it mean to make mistakes upon mistakes, so humiliating? Then Zheng's daughter is still young, and your Majesty asked her to return to secular life and go home. Isn't this a good thing?"

But instead of compromising, the emperor became even tougher. All the eighth princes were exiled, and many nobles who secretly promoted public opinion were also convicted and exiled.

It took five years to compile the clan annals, but no matter how much it was revised, the emperor was still dissatisfied. In the end, the emperor decided to specify the standards for officials. Afterwards, the commotion caused by the eight young men with five surnames smashing the Fan Tower and the huge public opinion it aroused fully demonstrated that the opposition to this matter was very strong.

The more Wei Zheng thought about it, the angrier he became.

Wei Zheng was dissatisfied with his wife's rude remarks, in front of a junior.

He did not approve of the emperor making it so ugly in order to suppress the old gentry and promote the new nobles.

Wei Zheng, however, became more serious.
He stared with two big eyes, "I think back then, the saint didn't know that the Zheng and Lu families were married, so he hastily issued an order to canonize Zheng Renji's daughter as Chonghua. Later, after my advice, the saint stopped the canonization ceremony, which was considered a timely correction. But That incident also left a trail. Lu Shuang did not dare to bring up the engagement, and Mrs. Zheng did not dare to marry off Zheng. In the end, she had no choice but to give a good woman to the nun."

The daughter of Zheng Renji, who became a monk, was given to Wu Huaiyu as his concubine. However, Zheng Xuan's daughter, who originally wanted to be given to Wu Huaiyu as his concubine, was given to Lu Shuang by the emperor instead.

Just like the Wei family went through a lot of hardships in order to be able to marry the five surnames. If the emperor revamped the clan annals and demoted the five surnames to nothing, wouldn't it mean that Wei Zheng's efforts were also wasted.

Misfits,
This is a ruthless trampling on the face of the Zheng family. It is also a ruthless trampling on the face of the five surnames and the nobles with county surnames.

In Wei Zheng's eyes, these prominent families with county surnames for thousands of years, represented by the Five Surnames and Seven Families, deserve respect.

He still insisted that the emperor had done something wrong.

The clan annals are not compiled according to the tradition of county surnames, but purely based on the official rank of the Tang Dynasty, and even the descendants of the royal family are ranked first, which makes the clan annals even more unprestige.

What's more, the brother who is married to Siniang is also Erlang's teacher. Don't you know how good Duke Wu is? To put it bluntly, there are so many girls in Chang'an City who regard Duke Wu as their dream lover. "

"Now many years have passed, the saint actually made another mistake with the same person. This is a sign of ignorance of repentance and adding more mistakes to each other.

The emperor was still complacent,
But he didn't know that with his imperial power, he could do whatever he wanted for a while, but doing so would have endless consequences. In those days, Yang Guang acted more freely than the emperor does today.
That was the emperor who even dared to dig up the foundation of the Guanlong aristocratic group, Yang Sui.
The results of it,
In the seventh year of his great career, the world was in chaos, and he was finally killed in the palace in Jiangdu, ending miserably.

Then the Zheng woman is so pitiful, why should she be humiliated like this? "

I stopped drinking and didn't eat dinner. I went back to the study directly, and then started to write a memorial to the emperor again.

Especially the recent uproar over clan chronicles. Although Wei Zheng is ranked second in the clan chronicles, Wei Zheng still feels that the clan chronicles edited by Gao Shilian and others are not good enough.

Now the emperor has not stopped and is cruel to the Zheng family again.

This time Wei Zheng wrote thousands of words in one breath, and his words of advice were very sharp and fierce.
He just called Li Shimin a fool and directly compared him to Yang Guang.

The next day, Wei Zheng got up early and went to the East Palace to attend the morning court, and then presented the Ten Thousand Characters Memorial to the emperor.

The memorials are as sparse as a mud cow entering the sea, and there is no news.

Wei Zheng asked to meet the saint.

The emperor is missing.

Wei Zheng was so anxious that he simply wrote a resignation letter and asked to abdicate on the grounds of eye disease.

The emperor still did not reply.

Wei Zheng entered two more vocabulary lists in succession.

Not only that, he also directly hung the official seal of the servant on the door, and then went home.

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help but frown.

In fact, Li Shimin had read Wei Zheng's letter of advice, including the previous one.
But the emperor did not agree with Wei Zheng's opinion.

He doesn't feel that he did anything wrong,
In other words, this is not entirely right, but the emperor believes that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. From a long-term perspective, it is worth doing, and it is even a problem that cannot be postponed any longer and must be solved immediately.

As for the two daughters of the Zheng family,
The emperor could do it or not, and he naturally had his reasons for choosing to do it.

"Summon Wei Zheng here, I want to talk to him face to face."

Xiyuan Thatched Cottage.

Wei Zheng came according to the order.

As soon as they met, Li Shimin raised his hand to interrupt Wei Zheng's long-prepared words, "I have placed you among the enemy captives and appointed you as a key official. If you see my faults, you will not hesitate to remonstrate. If you don't see the gold in the mines, how valuable is it?" Why? If a person is well-forged and made into a weapon, it will be treasured by others. I compare myself to gold. I regard you as a good worker. Although you are sick, you are not old. How can you do it?"

If these words were in the past, Wei Zheng might have been deeply moved after hearing this, and would not have mentioned his resignation again.

But this time, Wei Zheng felt that the emperor was wrong and the emperor refused to admit his mistake, so he could no longer be the servant.

"Your Majesty, I have gained your Majesty's appreciation and trust. I have been given important positions as ministers. I am in charge of provincial affairs. I share secrets with Zhongshu and discuss state affairs. I am also responsible for reviewing edicts, signing memorials, and have the power to seal and refute."

"I must live up to His Majesty's trust and fulfill my duties."

"But now your Majesty's series of decrees have not been issued by Zhongshu. This is a private decree that was sealed in the imperial edict. The central court cannot recognize it. If your Majesty can withdraw the decree, I am also willing to withdraw the statement."

Li Shimin frowned, and his nose became stubborn again.

"Where did I go wrong?"

Wei Zheng started to snap his fingers and told the emperor exactly where he was wrong.
Li Shimin became more and more angry as he listened. His chest heaved violently and his eyes turned red. This Wei's nose really made him want to kick him.

"You always say that the five surnames are the commander of the county and the family is rich, but that is all in the past. Now in the court, does the five surnames have a prime minister? You, Wei Zheng, were so poor that you became a monk and became a wild Taoist priest, but now I grant you the title of Duke Guo Zheng, Dr. Zuo Guanglu, and the attendants have made you second-class.

But you don't want to praise the five surnames. Wei Zhengqian disappoints me so much. "

"As the king of a country, how can your majesty decide policies based on personal likes and dislikes? Wouldn't this make Yang Guang second? Is it because your majesty destroyed DTZ and Tuyuhun that he became inflated? I want to say that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty back then After he succeeded to the throne, the Turkic Khans also suppressed him to clear the way for him. They also destroyed Tuyuhun and Yiwu, allowing all the countries in the Western Regions to pay tribute one after another, and also destroyed Linyi Liuqiu. But what is the final result? "

"Your Majesty, do you want to repeat the same mistakes? That happened decades ago."

"shut up."

Li Shimin shouted angrily.

Wei Zheng directly took off the Sanliang Jinde crown with a very firm attitude, "Since Your Majesty no longer listens to my words, how can I have the dignity to serve as your servant again?"

"How can I be the prime minister of the imperial court?"

"My eyes are dim and it is difficult for me to do my job. Please resign from your position as a servant."

"Wei Zheng, if you don't just say a few words, you will resign. Isn't this the behavior of a prime minister?"

"I beg you to resign!"

Wei Zheng put down Jindeguan and left the thatched cottage directly.
Li Shimin angrily kicked the desk in front of him over. This wise man never made people worry.

But after the emperor sat there and breathed heavily for a while, he still had no intention of taking back the decree to give Zheng's two daughters.

You can't bow down to this matter.

Now that it has been done, it can only be carried out to the end. If the decree is withdrawn now, the clan chronicle will only have one result. The manuscript will have to be discarded and burned before it is officially published.

This was a result that the emperor could not tolerate.

After thinking about it for a day and a night,

The emperor issued a decree. Taking into account Wei Zheng's eyesight and stubbornness, he listened to Jie Shizhong and promoted him to the second rank of Zhengzheng, which would save his subordinates trouble.

Don't drive Yang Shidao to Yongzhou and pay homage to him.

Wei Zheng was still the prime minister, but because Wei Zheng lost his temper and went home instead of going back to work in the province, Li Shimin worshiped his brother-in-law Yang Shidao as his minister and asked him to take charge of the affairs of his subordinates.

Of course, the position of prime minister was still reserved for Wei Zheng. He could advance with special skills and still know that his subordinates would be in trouble. If he wanted to come back to work, he and Yang Shidao would be in charge of the subordinates' troubles.

Giving him a one-level promotion could be regarded as recognition of Wei Zheng, but it was impossible for the emperor to withdraw his will.

When Wu Huaiyu heard the news, he was also surprised. He didn't expect that Wei Zheng would really get into trouble with the emperor.

At that time, the emperor wanted to confer Zheng Renji's daughter as Chonghua, but Wei Zheng finally interfered and messed up the matter.

But this time, Wei Zheng fought again, and even though he objected with words, the emperor still did not compromise.

"Consort Yang, this is pie in the sky."

On the way to Sanyuan Longqiao, Wu Huaiyi said to Huaiyu with a smile.

"It may not be a pie, but it is indeed a good thing for Yang Consort. At least he can be regarded as the second Tang Dynasty prime minister of the Hongnong Yang family. This is a good thing for the Yang family and him. Great thing.”

As for how long Yang Shidao can be prime minister, in fact, everyone with a discerning eye knows that he is just a temporary replacement. But if you replace him, he will also be the prime minister.

"It seems that you have decided to accept Nun Zheng this time." Huaiyi also teased him.

Wu Huaiyu didn't care, thinking that Li Sanniang had gone to Zhongnan Mountain to be a Taoist nun, and Tang Gaozong also took Wu Meiniang, who had become a monk at Baima Temple, back to the palace.

Niubi·Wei·Zuipao·Zheng, this time he ran into an iron wall.

It can also be seen from this that the emperor is indeed different from before.

In the early years of Zhenguan, even if the emperor was dissatisfied, he would still compromise if the ministers could advise him and the opposition was loud.

But this time, the emperor was extremely tough. Although he took Tianzhu Hu Monk Red Pill and the dragon spear was softened, his heart became harder.

(End of this chapter)