Five years of county magistrate, 100 million catties of grain shocked Li Shimin

Chapter 117 Emperor Fury, Tour Langzhou City

"Exactly!"

Wang Gui frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice.

He didn't see the change in Li Shimin's expression, otherwise he wouldn't have answered so quickly.

"Does Wang Xiang really understand the situation in Liaozhou?"

"They don't understand why, as a servant, you came to me without checking?"

Li Shimin was suddenly furious.

Throwing out the memorial just taken.

With a few snaps, the memorial in the dark fell to the ground, at the feet of Wang Gui and the two of them.

"Your Majesty, the people of Liaozhou are miserable!"

Wang Gui and Pei Ji looked at each other, and Pei Ji also stepped forward.

Now the two are not talking about Fang Yuan's criminal evidence, but about Fang Yuan's management in Liaozhou.

Liaozhou is so big, no matter how good Fang Yuan's policy is, it will always harm some people's interests.

Among them, the aristocratic families in Liaozhou were the most affected, and they almost became the deprived part, and they had to please those untouchables.

"It's such a miserable situation, but what I saw was that some aristocratic families in Liaozhou were acting recklessly and wanting to rebel!"

"I really tolerate Hedong too much, so that some evil forces dare to rebel, and even dare to kill the current governor to pretend to be themselves!"

"I'm new to the throne, so the local evil forces don't take me seriously, do they? Do you think my knives aren't sharp enough?"

Li Shimin's voice was even louder.

The momentum also became more turbulent.

Like an angry tiger, roaring like a king.

Similarly, Li Shimin has already learned what happened in Liaozhou.

Liaoshan Wang's father and son dared to take advantage of the governor's absence to launch a coup and unite with the family to seek the governor's position.

If it wasn't for Fang Yuan's precautions, it would have spread to his ears that Fang Yuan poisoned the people, Wang Chengzhe county magistrate tried his best to turn the tide and save Liaozhou from danger.

As a result, he was concealed, and under the recommendation of many aristocratic families, the governor of Liaozhou became the new governor of Liaozhou as a matter of course!
Damn, it's really hateful, it's completely intolerable!

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

"That's Fang Yuan's trick!"

Pei Ji's expression changed, and he said in a deep voice.

There is no doubt that Li Shimin was referring to Sang and Huai.

Scolding the Pei family, and scolding the Wang family, the two families are the culprits.

At the same time, he secretly scolded himself and Wang Gui for being blind and unable to see the truth.

"Pei Xiang is really old."

"I thought it was time for Pei Xiang to retire."

Li Shimin's eyes turned cold, he stared at Pei Ji, and said in a low voice.

"Your Majesty doesn't trust the old ministers, but let the old ministers take office. Isn't Your Majesty afraid of hurting the hearts of the ministers?"

"Veterans have devoted themselves to the Great Tang, and have devoted themselves to the founding of the Great Tang. There is hard work without credit!"

Pei Ji's eyes also turned cold, and he said in a deep voice.

Today, he wanted to ease the relationship with the emperor.

Otherwise, when Pei Ji encountered problems, he would go directly to the Supreme Emperor to complain.

However, his initiative to show weakness, in exchange for Li Shimin's request to retire.

This made Pei Ji very angry, but also very unwilling, and very dissatisfied with Li Shimin.

"Pei Xiang has repeatedly made mistakes, and I am afraid that the outstanding talents of Tang Dynasty will be destroyed in Pei Xiang's hands."

"For the good of Pei Xiang, for the good of me, and for the good of the Tang Dynasty, please ask Pei Xiang to become an official!"

Li Shimin said with a sullen face.

Seemingly polite, but eyes full of anger fixed on Pei Ji.

Pei Ji's face darkened, and he was about to fight back, but suddenly, there was a voice reading aloud from outside the imperial study.

"According to a report from Liaozhou City: Liaoshan Wang's father and son, together with Pei Yinghua and others, poisoned workers in major factories in Liaozhou, resulting in more than 3000 people being poisoned."

"Father and son of the Wang family of Liaoshan seized the opportunity to seize control of Liaozhou governor's mansion, led three hundred soldiers to surround Fang mansion, tried to forcibly convict Liaozhou governor Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan, who left falsely, saw through and counterattacked."

"Father and son Wang of Liaoshan confessed to the crime. At the same time, Zhou Kaile, magistrate of Yushe County, exposed a lot of evidence of Wang Chengzhe's guilt.

"Pei Yinghua cooperated with Liaoshan Wang's father and son to riot Liaozhou City, causing the people in Liaozhou City to be in panic. According to Qin Liangcai's evidence, Pei Yinghua was a supporter behind the bandits in Taiyuan and participated in the death of the previous governors of Liaozhou. The evidence was conclusive and he committed suicide. plead guilty!"

Du Ruhui walked in.

Along with it came Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji.

The three of them had been waiting outside the hall for a long time at Li Shimin's invitation, when they heard a roar coming from inside, they came in immediately.

"Can Du Xiang be sure that the evidence here is true?"

Pei Ji took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.

He had written with Pei Yinghua many times.

But it has never been heard that the Taiyuan bandits were secretly supported by Pei Yinghua.

Wang Gui on the side lowered his head, his eyes flashed with worry, he felt that he had broken into a vortex: the emperor wanted to use this problem to get Pei Xiangge out.

A person who is too emperor cannot be in such a high position.

Few ministers in the DPRK and China are unaware of the conflict between the two.

"If Xiang Pei doesn't believe you, you can check it yourself."

Du Ruhui said softly.

At this moment, he was not as aggressive as last time.

After today, there is a high probability that Pei Ji will be relegated to give his colleagues some face.

"Your Majesty, I will take my leave!"

Pei Ji said in a deep voice with a dark face.

He turned around and walked outside the Tai Chi Palace.

"Pei Xiang, I hope to receive your resignation in seven days!"

Li Shimin said with a blank face.

As a veteran and founding hero, he has given Pei Ji good looks many times.

If Pei Ji still doesn't know what to do, then don't blame yourself for not giving him face as a veteran.

Pei Ji stopped, and everyone looked at his figure, but Pei Ji did not respond to Li Shimin's words.

He just paused for a while, and then walked towards the gate again, but the figure became a lot less.

After leaving the imperial study room, Pei Ji stood at the door for a while, instead of returning directly to Pei's mansion, he went to Tai'an Palace.

"Your Majesty, I will retire first."

Wang Gui whispered.

I want to take the opportunity to leave the palace.

He wanted to save face for the Wang family.

Also very dissatisfied with Fang Yuan, wanting to take this opportunity to teach Fang Yuan a lesson.

But it was obvious that he came at the wrong time, Du Ruhui and the other three were all the emperor's confidantes, following him to conquer the world.

Now is not the time to save face.

"What's the hurry, Xiang Wang? I'm here. I just have something I want to discuss with Xiang Wang."

Li Shimin called Wang Gui with a blank expression.

Wang Gui's ability to be a servant is a little insufficient.

But considering that Wang Gui might have mastered the property left by Prince Yin, Li Shimin forcibly promoted him.

Because Wang Gui was related to the Wang family in Taiyuan, there were very few people who opposed him in the court, so Wang Gui became a servant without any resistance.

"Your Majesty, please speak clearly."

Wang Gui said embarrassingly.

Thinking about what Li Shimin was going to say.

"I want to attach importance to the imperial examination and implement the imperial examination in an all-round way. I don't know what the king's opinion is?"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

Since the last chat with Fang Yuan, he has been thinking about the imperial examination.

It is certain that the implementation of the imperial examination and the emphasis on the imperial examination will be able to disintegrate the control of the aristocratic family over the local area.

For example, what happened in Liaozhou this time, if there is no Fang Yuan, if someone else is the governor, the Wang family and his son may have succeeded.

Because they are all local aristocratic families, the county magistrates of the three counties are not only members of the county, but also members of Liaozhou. After their Liaozhou aristocratic families have discussed it, they can start.

But at this time, if there are more officials who are not local or from various families, then they will not agree to this happening, and the families will help.

In order to release the aristocratic family's control of the local area as soon as possible, Li Shimin decided to implement the imperial examination from now on.

It just so happened that using the momentum of withdrawing Pei Ji, more people's opposition would be reduced.

"Your Majesty, the imperial examination is a relic of the previous dynasty, why not take it too seriously?"

"History may say that there is no one in our Tang Dynasty, and we will only copy things from the previous dynasty."

Wang Gui pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, I suggest that you carefully consider it!"

Du Ruhui stood up and said.

He didn't know in advance that the imperial court should attach importance to imperial examinations.

"Your Majesty, please be careful!"

Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling also spoke one after another.

Obviously, it was the first time that the four ministers present knew that Li Shimin had the idea of ​​attaching importance to the imperial examination.

"The tyranny of the Sui Dynasty was attacked by all the people in the world. This is the will of the people in the world."

"However, the Sui Dynasty also has things that we can learn from in the Tang Dynasty, and there are things that we can learn from."

"We don't deny the goodness of one thing, nor cover up the badness of one thing. As long as there is something worth learning about, we can learn from it."

"I want to attach importance to the imperial examination and promote the imperial examination, starting from all provinces, prefectures and counties, order the imperial court to vigorously publicize it, at least until the villagers know that the imperial court attaches great importance to the imperial examination."

Li Shimin said solemnly.

His eyes gradually became sharper.

Apart from Wang Gui, Du Ruhui and the others can be said to be the most trustworthy group.

But even the most trustworthy group is the one who opposes the emphasis and implementation of the imperial examination.

Because they are essentially from major families, and they have thousands of interests behind them.

"Your Majesty, now that the imperial court is about to launch a war against the Eastern Turks, will the imperial examination be gradually planned?"

Wang Gui pondered for a moment, but still didn't want to agree.

The imperial examination is of great importance, which has triggered the interests of too many aristocratic families.

The demise of the former dynasty is also partly due to the implementation of the imperial examination.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please be careful!"

Du Ruhui and the others seconded the proposal one after another.

"War and imperial examination are two different things."

"The imperial court only needs soldiers to fight, not everyone."

"If the imperial court doesn't have to do anything because of the war, then what's the use of retaining the princes of the Manchu court? Isn't it enough to follow Pei Ji to become an official?"

Li Shimin said solemnly.

Still insist on emphasizing and promoting imperial examinations.

In Fang Yuan's words, what just happened in Liaozhou made him firmly attach importance to the imperial examination.

If the imperial court has enough money, he will support the students to travel according to Fang Yuan's wishes.

"Your Majesty is wise, and I support you!"

Wang Gui sighed in his heart and said respectfully.

Obviously, Li Shimin is warning not to forget what he just committed.

That's the end for Pei Ji, he hasn't pursued his own problems yet, so he has to agree with his policy.

As a last resort, Wang Gui agreed to Li Shimin's policy.

"Du Xiang, what about you?"

Li Shimin looked at Du Ruhui aggressively.

"I support you!"

Du Ruhui sighed inwardly, and said respectfully.

Li Shimin pressed Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling again, and finally they agreed.

"Very good. Tomorrow morning, we will reconsider the importance of the imperial examination and the implementation of the imperial examination."

Li Shimin nodded in satisfaction.

Send Wang Gui, Du Ruhui and others away.

Although the idea was initially realized, Li Shimin couldn't be happy.

After all, the aristocratic family is still too rampant. It's okay in the imperial capital, but it's hard to manage in the local area.

It would be great if there were more officials like Fang Yuan, and his imperial power could be more concentrated.

Thinking of Fang Yuan, Li Shimin began to worry, although Fang Yuan only took action against the Pei and Wang clans this time, it dissatisfied the famous families in the world, it is estimated that there will be many families targeting Fang Yuan in the future.

When Li Shimin was worried about Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan and his group have really left Liaozhou City and set off for Langzhou.

This time, Fang Yuan and Zhang San also brought Hong Xu, Qing Yan, Xue family siblings and others.

Fang Yuan needed Xue Bowu's protection, and Xue Jiaoyan didn't want to stay in Fang Mansion alone, so he went with him.

For four days in a row, everyone was on the bumpy official road, and it would be better to enter the Langzhou area.

Apart from Wuling County and Liaozhou, there is also a concrete road in Langzhou, which was built by Fang Yuan when he built Wuling County.

There is only one, and it can only reach Langzhou City.

But because of this road, there are quite a lot of people in Langzhou City.

Many caravans doing business in Wuling County may pass through Langzhou City, driving the local economy.

Although Langzhou City at this time was located in the remote south, it was no less backward than the current Liaozhou City.

"Oh, I've finally arrived in Langzhou City, but I'm exhausted."

Xue Jiaoyan got off the carriage with a pale face.

She hadn't traveled so hard before, and even vomited several times on the way.

"Sister, are you okay?"

Xue Bowu patted her on the back with concern.

But Xue Bo's strength is not serious, this slap almost made Xue Jiaoyan lose her breath.

"You want to murder your sister?!"

Xue Jiaoyan coughed repeatedly, jumped up and rewarded Xue Bowu with a chestnut.

With a bang, Xue Bowu repeatedly covered his head in pain and pushed aside, looking pitifully at Xue Jiaoyan.

"Jiaoyan, you always use such force, aren't you afraid of breaking Bo Wu's brain?"

Fang Yuan frowned slightly.

On this point, he has long wanted to say.

Normal people are prone to concussion after being knocked on the brain like this.

Moreover, Xue Bowu's mind is not good, he doubted whether it was Xue Jiaoyan's credit.

"I want you to manage."

Xue Jiaoyan glared at Fang Yuan.

Then he muttered: You think I want to, I just want to beat his brain.

But Fang Yuan didn't hear what was said later, he gave her a blank look, and stopped mentioning it.

Fang Yuan felt that he should not intervene too much in the matter between the two siblings, so as not to make trouble.

Soon, Zhang San and Hongxu Qingyi bought a lot of fruits in Langzhou City and set off for Zhao Mansion.

The Zhao family is also quite prestigious in Langzhou City, not a poor family, but a branch of the Nanyang Zhao family.

Therefore, Zhao's mansion is stately and luxurious, not comparable to Fang Yuan's Fang Mansion in Liaozhou.

After being notified, someone came out to greet him soon.

The leader was a girl in yellow clothes, about fifteen or sixteen years old, trotting out like an oriole flying out, accompanied by laughter like silver bells.

When she was running close to Fang Yuan and the others, she suddenly slowed down, walked towards Fang Yuan with brisk steps like Xiaojiabiyu, shyly shouted:
"Brother Yuan!"

(End of this chapter)