Chapter 114: Fame spreads
Li Longji, the son of the Tang Dynasty, seemed to take care of this sister very much, and even promised to crown Pei Jizhi as the founding county marquis at the right time. Yang Guozhong secretly slandered, before this, the Son of Heaven begged for the title of the eldest princess of Huo Guo, but he had a negative attitude, but today he is unusual, and it seems that he is too old to stand this woman's tears.
This reply made Princess Huo very satisfied, and after complaining a few more words, she got up and retired with interest. She is not a person who doesn't know how to measure, the Son of Heaven and the prime minister have a discussion, and it is better to listen less, otherwise it will leave people with the impression of being interested in politics, which is to bring disaster upon themselves.
It is precisely because she has always known the reason for advancing and retreating, that the eldest princess of Huo Guo has been able to continue to be favored in front of the Son of Heaven for a long time, otherwise she will not see her own son who died at the hands of the Son of Heaven, let alone his sister!
After the eldest princess of the Huo Kingdom left, Li Longji's face immediately became more and more gloomy, and he sat sullenly for a while before he said in a low voice: "Tell me, why do you deal with the Cui family?"
Yang Guozhong had already made a draft on the way to Daming Palace, and nothing was as important as the country in the heart of the Son of Heaven, so to ensure that Cui Anguo did not bite people indiscriminately, the only way was to have only one word, that is, "drag"!
Cui Anguo has an advantage over others, that is, he was born in a good family and has a strong family backing.
"The minister suggested that Cui Anguo should be immediately handed over to Yousi for trial and conviction, and his family property and children in the city should ......be confiscated."
However, the Son of Heaven did not say a word, and under a pair of triangular eyelids because of old age, a cold light shot out of his eyes.
There were already ready-made examples to follow for such a disposition, but the Son of Heaven personally summoned him not to hear Yang Guozhong say such nonsense. Cui An's state affairs involved the assassination of ministers, and now there is such a farce, and he has been arrested, messing up the hearts of the people in the capital, how to clean it up?
Yang Guozhong is the prime minister, and the people in the capital who are stirred up are panicked, and they must bear an unshirkable responsibility. The Son of Heaven was actually a little angry, and he was asking Yang Guozhong for his guilt, rather than really wanting to hear his handling of this emergency.
Yang Guozhong, who sensed the thoughts of the Son of Heaven, was suddenly helpless in his heart. On the way to Daming Palace, he assumed various possibilities in advance and thought of various countermeasures, but he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven would actually want to ask the teacher for guilt.
After all, Yang Guozhong deeply understands the temper and temperament of the Son of Heaven, if he changes to others, he may have to defend himself a little at this moment, but he got up from the soft couch, came to the Son of Heaven and knelt down, "The minister is guilty, please punish the saint!"
There is often a great chance that the minister's obedient confession will be exchanged for Li Longji's lenient disposition, so that he will not be completely dismissed from his post.
Of course, Li Longji's color to Yang Guozhong today is definitely not because he has the intention of rejecting the prime minister. If Yang Guozhong's position is removed, there will be no one who is both capable and trustworthy to take his place in a hurry, otherwise he will not be replaced by someone else.
Although Li Longji has recently greatly promoted and reused Ge Shuhan, in his heart he still only uses his ability and does not use his people. Yang Guozhong is the opposite, although his ability is much worse, but after all, he is the brother of the imperial concubine, and he has a shallow foundation in the court, so he doesn't have to worry about him becoming a powerful minister, and because of the imperial concubine, he doesn't have to worry about colluding with the prince to be disobedient.
Li Longji is a very smart person, the appointment of prime ministers has a strong purpose, in the first half of his life he tried to glorify the Tang Dynasty, and the appointments were all capable ministers, such as Yao Chong and Song Jing in the early days, Yuwenrong Zhang Jiuling and others in the middle period, many of these people are not the kind of people who tend to be inflammatory, but they all have talents that are second to none, making the Tang Dynasty thriving day by day, and the national strength is stronger day by day.
After the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was extremely powerful, and the four Yi came to the dynasty. His mind also changed from forging ahead to being happy in time, so Li Linfu, a person who is good at drilling camps and tends to be inflammatory, has become the best candidate for prime minister.
In fact, Li Linfu is really a prime minister who makes Li Longji very worry-free, he can figure out the sacred heart, and his ability is not bad, but it is a pity that there are no good flowers for 100 days, no 100 days for people to be popular, and no matter how intimate the favorite minister, there will be a day when he falls out of favor. Therefore, Li Longji is like throwing away a pair of shoes that have been worn for a long time, giving up the old Li Linfu and choosing Yang Guozhong, who is also good at drilling camps and tends to be inflammatory.
These prime ministers, whether it is Yao Chong and Song Jing, Li Linfu or Yang Guozhong, are all replaceable chess pieces at any time in Li Longji's eyes. With just one word, Li Longji can make them nothing, and they can take what they want from their status, property, and even their lives.
If you want to be a qualified son of heaven, you can't rely too much on your courtiers, otherwise you will fall into a situation from which you will never recover. In fact, Li Longji does uphold this principle when he treats the courtiers around him. However, after all, he is old, and in the appointment of the border generals, it is inevitable that there will be such a mistake of relying too much on the side generals and not using grace and power.
An Lushan is a monster spawned by Li Longji because of his neglect and laziness. By the time Li Longji understood this, it was too late. In fact, as early as a year ago, Li Longji, as the Son of Heaven, had already realized that An Lushan had become a big trend.
But he is still too old, and he no longer has enough energy and courage to eradicate this hidden danger of border generals, because doing so will most likely lead to a rebellion, which the Son of Heaven does not want to see.
As a result, in the process of bribery, suspicion and passing, An Lushan still inevitably rebelled, and it took only one month to conquer the eastern capital Luoyang, which dealt a heavy blow to Li Longji's self-confidence in more than 40 years of peace, and greatly damaged his prestige and statement.
Li Longji, who has lost his self-confidence, has now reached its peak of jealousy and suspicion of his subordinates, and the same is true for Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, while promoting and reusing Ge Shuhan, and maintaining due favor to Yang Guozhong, who has repeatedly made stupid moves, it is not a way to maintain the clamp on Ge Shuhan at all times.
Looking at Yang Guozhong, who was trembling in front of him, Li Longji sighed secretly.
"Get up, just know the guilt, Chang'an can't afford to toss anymore, whoever dares to do anything wrong, I will investigate it to the end, go down!"
After a seemingly understatement, Li Longji didn't even give Yang Guozhong a chance to speak, so he sent him out.
Yang Guozhong walked out of Daming Palace, and after the cold wind suddenly rose, he was shocked to realize that his clothes had been soaked with cold sweat.
As for Cui Anguo's case, where did he dare to go to the Son of Heaven with selfish intentions to talk about it? Since the hot potato is in the hands of Yin Wangshou, the young man of Jingzhao Mansion, let him have a headache.
After returning home, Yang Guozhong closed the door on the grounds of ill health. Yin Wangshou, the young man of Jingzhao Mansion, came to visit at this time, but Yang Guozhong didn't even let him enter the mansion, only let the house slave pass a word, and everything was interrogated and dealt with in accordance with Tang Law.
After Yin Wangshou, the young man of Jingzhao Mansion, left Yongjiafang, he didn't know which tendon was wrong, and he took the whole city that night, arrested more than 100 relatives and friends related to the Cui family, and threw them into prison.
Overnight, the people in Chang'an City applauded, and even the eldest princess of Huo sent a house slave to give Wang Shou a box of heavy gifts.
After this public case spread in the community, it changed again, and it was said that Qin Jin, who was the lieutenant general of the Shenwu Army, did something behind his back, and Cui Anguo ended up today. As a result, Qin Jin's ruthless reputation has also spread among the government and the opposition, and if anyone plans to move Qin Jin, I'm afraid they will have to think twice.
In addition, people are also staring at each other and waiting to see a good show, since Qin Jin is a character who refuses to suffer, and the old minister of Geshu snatched the Xin'an Army he brought out, presumably this Zhonglang general must also have a backup to deal with.
Unexpectedly, the show didn't come to pass, Qin Jin actually made the handover calmly, and did not have a half-point affair with the aggressive Ge Shuhan. Soon, rumors began to spread that Qin Jin bullied the soft and feared the hard, and the old minister Geshu had a strong foundation and won the favor of the saints, so he naturally didn't dare to touch the tiger's beard.
When these rumors reached Qin Jin's ears, he just laughed, but Chen Qianli, Qi Bihe and others were indignant, scolding Ge Shu for not being a thief.
Ge Shuhan is about to leave Beijing tomorrow and rush to Tongguan, and what Qin Jin is worried about is how the Son of Heaven will deal with Gao Xianzhi. These days, the Son of Heaven has been unexpectedly calm, and he has not made half an adjustment to the Tongguan garrison, Zheng Xianli thinks that the Son of Heaven may have acquiesced to the current situation and does not want to make any more moves, but Qin Jin has another hunch, this is just the last calm before the storm.
Now Chang'an, the news seems to be extremely closed, about the war situation in Hebei is even more rumors, some people say that the rebel general Shi Siming took the Fanhu rebels to the north and fought a few victories, and it looks like he is about to sweep the entire territory of Hebei.
Some people also say that Dr. Feng led his troops to fight several victories in the area of Taihang Mountain, and the development of the situation has become more and more powerful in the imperial court. The rebels entrenched in Luoyang did not continue to march towards Tongguan, as evidenced by the previous fiasco of the Great Report.
The news about the war situation spread very chaotically, and it was difficult to distinguish the truth from the false for a while, but there was one piece of news that was indeed true. That is, the fire they lit in the mountains outside Tongguan has been extinguished, and the fire burned for seven days and seven nights, burning countless mountains, forests, grasses and trees, and also burning countless birds and beasts. The tens of thousands of rebels led by Cui Qianyou, except for a part that surrendered to the Tang army, the vast majority of the remaining people were also scattered in the mountains with dead and wounded.
At the same time, the price in exchange is also extremely heavy, including the land within a radius of 100 miles in Hongnong County and Shaanxi County has been scorched earth.
However, in any case, the rebels' front has suffered a heavy setback, and if the rumors of the fighting situation in Hebei Province are true, perhaps the rebels will be able to recover the rebels by today next year.
Everyone's judgment was very optimistic, including Qin Jin, who also felt that the history he knew seemed to have changed.
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