Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 260 Growing Mushrooms

With these aristocratic family members behind the scenes determined to fuel the flames, the comments criticizing Li Shimin naturally became more and more popular, and gradually there was a trend of three people becoming tigers.

Although Li Shimin got angry anxiously, while trying to mobilize manpower to deal with the disaster, he also had to find ways to stop these rumors that were not good for him, and he felt overwhelmed.

Especially those local officials who obviously did not work hard and were slow in responding to the disaster, so that the suffering people inevitably complained, which further increased the momentum of the spread of rumors.

And Li Shimin can't come up with a particularly good countermeasure for the time being. He knows who is behind the scenes, but it is useless if he can't catch his fox tail and can't put a real hammer on it.

Moreover, he also knows the truth that blocking is worse than sparseness. At this time, there is no law related to crimes for words, and he is determined to be a wise king through the ages. Even for the change of Xuanwumen, he was not too strict. Restriction, let the world know frankly, and now faced with such rumors, naturally, he did not slap himself in the face and engage in something similar to literary inquisition.This kind of precedent cannot be set, otherwise how can we talk about accepting advice in the future.

For a while, Li Shimin even felt a little helpless, so he simply decided to imitate the practice of the past dynasties, and made an edict of guilt.

Although knowing this kind of thing would seriously damage one's reputation, which is exactly what the people behind the scenes expected, it was still a solution to the problem.

As long as the follow-up disaster relief is effective, at least these recorded lives can be saved, and the prestige of the court and his emperor in the hearts of the people will not be completely lost, and the lost face and prestige will be slowly recovered in the future. There is a chance to make up for it from those people in the family.

Just when the rumors about Li Shimin were rampant, a poem "the wine and meat of the Zhumen stinks, and the bones are frozen to death on the road" quietly became popular inside and outside Chang'an.

Although this solitary line of verse seems a bit nondescript without contextual transition and succession, but because the meaning is very easy to understand, and it is a relatively appropriate portrayal of the current Chang'an City, it can easily capture the psychology of ordinary residents. The resonance spread at an extremely fast speed.

It has a tendency to become a code word for everyone to greet, and it has almost become a sentence that most people inside and outside Chang'an City must mention when they meet.

Of course, it is inevitable that a lot of dissatisfaction with those aristocratic families has arisen from this. People's panic and anger caused by the double disaster during this period of time seem to have found a breakthrough.

As long as you compare the lives of those aristocratic families, and then look at your own current situation, you will inevitably have to complain.

One by one, they talked about the lives of rich and powerful families with their noses and eyes, as if they had seen with their own eyes how extravagant and wasteful those people were.

In fact, what they said seemed ridiculous to a real sensible person. People in aristocratic families would eat a few catties of mutton in one meal, and chicken legs were full?
You underestimated them too much, do you know what it means to never get tired of eating, getting better and not getting tired of fine food?It can only be said that poverty limits their imagination.

The ones who have endured the most behind-the-scenes pointing and pointing are naturally family members.

Compared with the upstarts who have recently emerged, these people with five surnames and seven nobles are more famous, and their names have been famous for so long. When it comes to rich families, ordinary people will also first think of these rich families with a long history .

Moreover, the deeds of those upstarts fighting for the country are still vivid in people's minds. After all, the previous battle of Shuofang just allowed Datang to recover the whole territory and achieve the goal of great unification. For the residents of Chang'an, the memory is still fresh.

Those nobles, especially the martial arts, can enjoy the glory and good life now, and it is because of their hard work regardless of life and death.

However, although the members of the aristocratic family also enjoyed similar or even more superior treatment, and also had great prestige, it seemed that everyone really couldn't remember what contributions they had made to Datang.

Therefore, ordinary people are naturally somewhat dissatisfied with their taking it for granted that they can sit back and enjoy it.Isn't it just a good birth, and deserves to enjoy such high officials and generous salary for many lifetimes?

Such rumors are also constantly spreading and fermenting. People's dissatisfaction with Li Shimin is gradually transferring to these people. Maybe this is called empathy?
At this time, the Cui family had been working as servants for Cui Qian for decades. It can be said that Cui Qian's absolute confidant, the current steward, was directing the servants to clean carefully. Cui Qian's private meeting The living room is even more important.

After careful sweeping, there must be a careful person with a rag to wipe the size and furnishings inside, as well as all the corners, including the floor, to make them spotless.

As for Cui Qian's study, the steward did it himself, and he would never do it by someone else.

It is the place where Cui Gan reads and writes daily, and it is also the clean room where he thinks alone. The Cui family can sit firmly in the top spot among the aristocratic families. Many of the countermeasures can be said to be proposed and perfected in this study. , naturally became the number one forbidden area of ​​the Cui family.

Which Cui family child is lucky enough to come here, and immediately after returning, everyone will be envious of him, and he will become full of confidence if he brags.

Such a place is naturally not allowed to leave the house, and only the steward who has been with Cui Gan for many years can enter and leave this study room relatively freely without being directly beheaded by the two expressionless killers at the door. , so he got the nickname "Second Patriarch" in the Cui family.

Naturally, he was the only one to do the task of cleaning the room. With his familiarity with all the affairs in the study, he would not mess up the things inside, and at the same time, he would not leave a clean corner.Otherwise, Cui Gan would definitely be furious, and Cui Gan who was furious would really kill someone!

After careful inspection of the row of huge halls where the living room is located, it has indeed been scrubbed clean. The steward hurriedly ordered people to close the doors and windows, so as to save the heat from entering here after the weather gets hot. It is not beautiful if dust and leaves are brought in by the wind.

But he himself carefully cleaned the inside and outside of Cui Gan's study, and then, as usual, he smiled gently at the two guards at the door, gently closed the door of the study, and continued to deal with other matters. something happened.

The huge Cui family committee really has too many big and small things to deal with, and Cui Gan obviously doesn't know how to handle everything by himself, and even some official matters will be handled by this trustworthy steward. Very busy.

After dinner, it was just getting dark, and Cui Gan, who had been in the court for a while, felt that his energy was not bad. As usual, he moved to the study room again, ready to think about a few difficult things in the court today. .

And his steward naturally needs to set up a lantern to help guide the way. It is customary not to light the lamp at will in the study. This pays the price of life.So the big butter candle in the study was never lit until Cui Qian arrived.

Seeing that the person who came was Cui Gan, the owner of the house, and the two cold guards at the door, they bowed and let the door open.

Cui Qian continued walking without looking sideways, and walked in with his head held high.The steward took a step behind and followed with a lantern in hand.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang suddenly, starting from Cui Gan's study, and even the halls behind, all disappeared in a huge flame.

The flames that rose suddenly even formed a magnificent mushroom cloud!
The nearby neighbors could feel the vibration clearly, and the huge fire cloud could be seen throughout Chang'an City.

Chang'an shakes, the palace shakes!
　It’s really impossible to add more today, please forgive me, the author has not been exercising for a long time in addition to working overtime during this period, and the lumbar spine and knees are not very comfortable. Today is a rare time to get the second update. , and considering that the things coded at night are a bit unreadable, I will no longer forcefully add updates, and go to exercise.

　　Of course, although there are only two updates this time, it is [-] words full of sincerity. You can have them all!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)