Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 132 The Prince's Foresight (2)

Li Chengqian nodded and said nothing more.

When Du He looked up, he saw Li Chengqian frowning tightly, with a worried expression on his face, thinking to himself: What is the prince worrying about?
"Your Highness! This minister looks worried on His Highness's face, and doesn't know what His Highness is worried about? Can you tell this minister, so that I can help His Highness solve problems." Du He said.

"To tell you the truth, I do have some worries!" Li Chengqian said.

"Now my country is at its peak in the Tang Dynasty, and now I have developed hybrid rice, which has increased food production. Your Highness has implemented new teaching methods to select talents for the court."

"I believe that once Your Highness ascends the throne in the future, the Tang Dynasty will be more prosperous and prosperous in your hands. If so, why should the prince worry? I really don't understand." Du He said.

"People who have no long-term considerations must have near-term worries! I am worried that in the future, the land will be annexed, corruption will run rampant, and my Tang's foundation will be destroyed." Li Chengqian said.

Don't look at it as if it is calm now, but it is not. In this seemingly peaceful world, it is actually full of dirt.

Corruption has never stopped, and land annexation is also going on quietly, but these are all being done in secret, without showing it on the surface, and doing it with great fanfare.

"Your Highness! Corruption has existed since ancient times. Now, in the Tang Dynasty, we have strict laws to restrain the atmosphere of corruption, which will definitely be able to effectively stop the atmosphere of corruption."

"As for this land annexation, it is indeed a headache. As long as it is not a fatuous king, he can control the occurrence of land annexation." Du He said.

Li Chengqian did not agree with what Du He said that land annexation has little to do with whether the ruling emperor is fatuous or not.

Wu Zetian's generation of empresses, although not a generation of bright masters, was not a mediocre generation. During the Wu Zhou period, land annexation was not so intense that a large number of farmers fled.

To prevent this phenomenon from happening, there must be corresponding policies to deal with it, and it is even better to have other interests to attract landlords and let them voluntarily give up land annexation.

Therefore, curbing corruption and preventing land mergers are long-term plans, even if these two phenomena cannot be eliminated.

At the very least, the harm of corruption and land annexation must be minimized.

"The widows you mentioned know it, but corruption is like an ant's nest. Sooner or later, Datang will be destroyed!"

"Nowadays, the laws of the Tang Dynasty may not be able to suppress the greed in people's hearts. There must be many officials testing back and forth on the edge of the law."

"This is precisely what the widows are worried about. When they find loopholes in the law, they will commit corruption unscrupulously." Li Chengqian said.

Du He said disapprovingly: "Will His Highness worry too much? Even if there are, they are just some people who can't stand on the stage."

"It's nothing to worry about doing some sneaky things in private! As long as there are laws of Datang, there is absolutely no one who dares to endanger Datang."

Li Chengqian felt that Du He trusted the laws of the Tang Dynasty too much in the matter of corruption, to the point of blindness.

They are even blind to the point of optimism, always thinking that they dare not, and underestimate the severity of corruption.

Marx once said in his "Das Kapital": "If capital has a 50.00% profit, it will take risks."

"If there is a [-]% profit, it dares to trample on all laws in the world; if there is a [-]% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even risking being hanged."

Corruption is the same. As long as the bribes they get reach or even exceed the bottom line of people's hearts, these corrupt officials will not hesitate to do it.

The absence of corruption by officials does not mean that the other party is a clean official, and it is likely that they have not reached the profit that made them take risks.

Historically, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a peasant uprising caused by corruption of local officials.

Li Chengqian remembers that this seems to have happened in the fourth year of Yonghui (635 AD).

In Qingxi County, Muzhou, Tang Dynasty, there was a once-in-a-century flood in Qingxi. Local officials not only did not open warehouses to relieve the disaster, but also concealed it and continued to collect various taxes. road.

The common people are unbearable to be greedy by the officials and forced to plunder by the tyrants. They live in dire straits and suffer unspeakably!

All of this was seen by a kind woman Chen Shuozhen. She saw the suffering of the villagers and couldn't help thinking that she had received help from the villagers.

Chen Shuozhen thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the worse he felt, so he decided to secretly open the owner's granary to help the victims regardless of his personal safety.

Chen Shuozhen was found out by his boss about opening a warehouse to release grain, and the landlord, who became angry from embarrassment, ordered Chen Shuozhen to be tied up.

He was hung up and beaten to death under the watchful eyes of all the villagers. All the villagers saw it and were worried.

So everyone organized, and taking advantage of the dim night, many villagers rushed into the firewood house where Chen Shuozhen was held and rescued him. In order to escape the search and capture of officers and soldiers, everyone covered Chen Shuozhen and fled into the Fuchuan Mountain at the junction of the three counties.

After recovering from the injury, Chen Shuozhen felt that only by overthrowing the Li Tang Dynasty, the people living at the bottom would have a way out.

So Chen Shuozhen used religion to develop believers and prepare for her future uprising.

After everything was ready, Chen Shuozhen contacted his brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin to organize a peasant uprising in Fuchuanshan Liujia 48 in Qingxi County, Muzhou.

Claiming to be the Emperor Wenjia, he took Zhang Shuyin as his servant to shoot, and then sent Shuyin to lead the crowd to attack and occupy Tonglu at night, and led 2000 troops to conquer Muzhou and Yuqian.

The attack on Shezhou was resisted by the defenders, and Shezhou could not be conquered; one of her generals, Tong Wenbao, led 4000 troops to attack Wuzhou, which was blocked by the official army.

Tang Gaozong, who received Chen Shuozhen's rebellion, hurriedly ordered Fang Renyu, the governor of Yangzhou, to send troops to the south, and Cui Yixuan, the governor of Wuzhou, led his troops to the north.

The rebel army encountered Cui Yixuan's troops in Xiahuai, and they were defeated. Thousands of people were killed. Chen Shuozhen had to lead the remnants to retreat to the Muzhou border. Later, thousands of people surrendered to the court one after another.

In November of the fourth year of Yonghui, the two ministries of Fang and Cui met, and the rebel army was finally defeated due to outnumbered, and Chen Shuozhen and others were captured and killed.

This month-long peasant uprising was thus completely ended.

All this is a tragedy caused by corruption and tyranny!
"Okay! Let's not discuss these things for now, you go and get the teaching done first!" Li Chengqian said.

Li Chengqian didn't want to say anything more about it, and now these things are beyond his control.

"I understand! I'm going to do it now! I'm leaving!" Du He saluted and retreated.

Li Chengqian got up and came to the entrance of the main hall, looked into the distance, and thought to himself: I, Li Chengqian, swear here that after I ascend the throne and become emperor, I will never let such a thing happen again.

(End of this chapter)