Chapter 134: There are distinguished guests in the temple
Early the next morning, the imperial court resurged, and the Son of Heaven issued an edict, worshipping Wei Jiansu, a servant of the door, as the Zhongshu order, and the general leader of the country. At the same time, he issued an edict ordering the prince to be in the political hall and listen to state affairs.
The government and the opposition were in an uproar, and the Tang Dynasty wrote the pen of the ruling government and had the power to issue orders, but anyone who took this as his official was actually the head of the prime minister. How could the officials have thought that Wei Jiansu, who has always been known as a shadow prime minister, could also succeed Yang Guozhong as the head of the prime minister.
What's even more unexpected is that the prince, who has always been suppressed by the Son of Heaven and guarded a lot, can actually enter the political hall and hear about state affairs in a grand manner!
In the political affairs hall, Wei Jiansu sat in the position that belonged to Yang Guozhong a few days ago, his face was as calm as the water of an ancient well, and he couldn't see any emotional fluctuations. After seeing the ceremony, all the officials were busy with their own affairs, but this Wei Xianggong was still sitting in front of the desk, as if an old monk had settled down.
Actually, Wei Jiansu was bitter in his heart, but he couldn't say it. Where is this to be a veritable real prime minister, and he is clearly roasting himself on the fire. Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong both relied on to be prime ministers, Li Linfu had unparalleled power and conspiracy in the Manchu Dynasty, and Yang Guozhong had the sister of the imperial concubine as Austrian aid.
Forget about nothing, the Son of Heaven actually stuffed the prince into the political hall.
This made Wei Jiansu embarrassed, and how to deal with the relationship with the prince became a big headache for Dingding. Working in the same government hall with the prince, it is inevitable that there will be intersections, if the distance is too close, it will inevitably attract the suspicion of the Son of Heaven, and if the distance is too far, it will hate the prince.
While pondering, the crown prince Li Heng, who was dressed in regular clothes, stepped into the political hall. Wei Jiansu hurriedly got up and saluted to greet him, but Li Heng took a few steps closer and stepped forward and humbly supported Wei Jiansu.
"Wei Xianggong doesn't have to be polite, Li Heng came to the political hall to be a student!"
"Your Highness is gracious!"
Li Heng dared to admit himself as a student, but Wei Jiansu didn't dare to take this teacher's hat, God knows when the saint in the Daming Palace will turn his face.
In fact, it is winter, and according to the old practice of previous years, it is far from the day of office, but at extraordinary times, there must always be a ruler in the political hall. Now that Yang Guozhong has been deposed as prime minister, there is only one prime minister in the political hall for the time being, so even if there is nothing to do, he has to sit in the political hall every day to deal with emergencies.
Wei Jiansu and Li Hengkun sat for a whole morning, and there were only two matters that needed to be solved urgently.
The first is the allocation of military resources, grain and grass for the Tongguan army, and the second is that the regulations for the expansion of the Beiya Forbidden Army must be reviewed and approved.
There are precedents for military funding, grain and grass, and as long as they are handled in accordance with the rules. The only thing that has some difficulties is the Beiya Forbidden Army, the composition of the soldiers, and the number of recruits, all of which were submitted by Qin and Jin to the realization of you. However, Wei Jiansu was quite rusty in military affairs, and in the past, Yang Guozhong was in charge, and he only provided advice to Yang Guozhong when he needed it, but now that there is no big tree above his head, he can't make up his mind for a while.
The crown prince Li Heng took the regulations for the expansion of the army forwarded by Wei Jiansu, and after reading through them, he was surprised that in this charter, he could not see the common Spring and Autumn penmanship in official documents at this time, and all data involved must use precise numbers. The terms and conditions are detailed and easy to understand. Although it is a bit wordy, it can be called a rare good official document.
In Li Heng's opinion, this is simply unbelievable, a person who is both civil and military, and courageous, may not be able to find a few in the whole world. So, I thought about having a deep conversation with him, but I wanted to see how much this person had in his stomach. However, he also knew that although there was an edict from his father and the emperor to serve military affairs, it did not mean that he could have private dealings with his subordinates, especially those who held military power.
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Qin Jin has not returned to the mansion of Shengyefang since he was released from Yulin Weizhong, it is said that Yang Guozhong had arranged for someone to want to raid his home, but then somehow it was gone, until Yang Guozhong resigned, no one in the mansion in Shengyefang has been harassed.
In the days when he was away, the Shenwu Army was tossed by Du Qianyun and Dugu Yanxi, and through bribery to appoint and dismiss generals, a large number of brigade leaders who had been selected through strict examinations were squeezed out. There are also city defense patrols, which have completely replaced the detention according to law with gold and silver ransom, so that the curfew situation that is gradually improving has been restored.
Now that everything has returned to the state before Qin Jin entered the Son of Heaven, Pei Jing and the others were finally liberated from the stables, and everyone was reinstated. Du Qianyun, the inspector of the Shenwu Army, will be directly swept to the end, and Dugu Yanxi will be cleaned up along with it.
Dugu Yanxi had just sat in the position of Shenwu Military Captain for a few days, and he was ruthlessly kicked off before he even had enough addiction. He threw the wooden shovel in his hand on the ground, but he slipped under his feet and fell to the ground, his hand was wet and sticky, and when he raised his hand, he saw that his right hand was covered with yellow-green feces.
The war horse was thin, but his focus was not on the war horse, and after a while, he couldn't help but rush out of the stable, lying on the snow and vomiting wildly, eager to vomit out all the stomach and intestines in his abdomen.
"Useless soft-footed chicken, get up and shovel the dung quickly!
With the scolding, Dugu Yanxi felt a big foot kick on his ass again. Feeling humiliated, he got up from the ground, intending to fight with the other party, but he was no match for others at all, and the man only shook, and his body lost his center of gravity and fell to the snow.
"Du Qianyun, I'll fight with you!"
Don't look at Du Qianyun's oily and slippery, and he is a wall grass, but he is quite capable of personal bravery, Dugu Yanxi is strong and strong, and he rarely suffers losses when he fights with people on weekdays, but today he is teased and ugly.
Du Qianyun tossed enough, seeing Dugu Yanxi like a crazy bull, rampage, unable to get rid of the entanglement for a while, his head was sweating. If you are hurt by this guy, it will be unlucky.
"Hey, hey, if you mess around again, I'll sue General Qin, and then it's not enough to kick two feet!"
Sure enough, when Dugu Yanxi heard Du Qianyun mention Qin Jin, he immediately stopped, and couldn't help but shudder. He never wanted to be locked up in that big room again in his life, that kind of pain and despair made people unable to survive or die.
Du Qianyun no longer paid attention to Dugu Yanxi, walked into the stable, copied the wooden shovel on the haystack, scooped up a pile of horse dung and threw it out viciously. If you don't clean it today, your stomach will go hungry again.
Qin Jin received an edict to liquidate Yang Guozhong's cronies and private individuals who were placed in the army, but if it was found that all of them were not imprisoned, the family property would be confiscated. The generals in the Shenwu army who have made a lot of money in the past few days have scattered their wealth one by one, and they are shocked and frightened when they see it. Du Qianyun had no choice but to resort to all his strengths, hoping to re-seek refuge in Qin Jin in order to protect his family property. In order to show his loyalty, he even did not hesitate to personally lead people to force Yang Guozhong to move out of Yongjiafang.
Now, there is no turning back, so he can only lean on the big tree of Qin Jin.
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On this day, Yin Wangshou, the young man of Jingzhao Mansion, personally went to the Forbidden Garden to visit Qin Jin. Qin Jin was surprised after getting the report, he had no contact with Wang Shou, and even if he had some official relations, it had not yet reached the point of making this person visit in person.
After all, Shaoyin of Jingzhao Mansion is a prominent official in the city, Qin Jin can't refuse to see him, who knows that as soon as Wang Shougang met, he asked him to get rid of ghosts for the people with a sad face!
Qin Jin suddenly felt ridiculous, "Zi Bu is silent, the strange power is confused, how can Shao Yin have a ghost and god theory?"
"The general didn't know that there had been a series of murders in the city recently, and all of them had been reported by the bitter master, which was caused by the evil ghosts that had accumulated corpses outside the Qinglong Temple. Jingzhao Mansion can control the lawless people on this earth, but it is difficult to cure those ethereal ghosts!"
Qin Jin laughed, he had never believed in such a thing as ghosts and gods in the world, so he reassured Wang Shou that he would definitely solve this matter properly.
On the same day, Qin Jin took people to inspect the outside of Qinglong Temple, and saw a mountain of reverse Hu heads piled up outside the temple gate, these thousands of heads have been frozen blue and black cold and hard with a hideous face, but at first glance it is terrifying. Although the original intention of the imperial court was to use these heads to deter lawlessness and inspire people, after all, it was in Chang'an City, and it should not be placed for too long, and it was about to warm up in spring, and after the temperature rose, corruption and festering, and it would be more difficult to deal with it at that time.
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Jin decided to clean up the head first. So Xingwen Zhengshitang, after getting permission, prepared several carts, planning to transport the thousands of heads outside the Qinglong Temple to the outside of the city and bury them on the spot.
Who knew that after Master Xingzhen, the abbot of the temple, learned of this, he took the initiative to petition Qin Jin, hoping to do a ritual to surpass these thousands of vain death souls.
Qin Jin immediately nodded in agreement, of course he didn't believe that there were dead souls in the world, and he didn't believe in any excess. The reason why it was agreed that the Venerable Xingzhen would do this ritual was to dispel the rumors of evil spirits committing crimes and to stabilize people's hearts. The two can divert the attention and uneasiness caused by the court earthquake caused by Yang Guozhong's resignation of the Chang'an government and the opposition.
Master Xingzhen chose an auspicious day, when Qin Jin personally entered the Qinglong Temple, but it was not for the purpose of surpassing the soul, but for another purpose. Before the ritual was carried out, he suddenly invited out an edict from the Son of Heaven, denouncing the sin of rebellion, and then reciting that he had been subdued and conferred the head, and the Son of Heaven was gracious, especially this transcendent Dharma, if he dared to harm the people of the Tang Dynasty again, he would be told to fall into hell forever and not be reborn.
The onlookers clapped their hands and praised Qin Jin's virtues! Master Xingzhen came to Qin Jin's side and whispered, "There is a distinguished guest in the dining room, I want to see the benefactor!"
Qin Jin saw that Master Xingzhen had a mysterious face, so he asked the identity of the distinguished guest.
"The donor knows it at first sight!"
Xingzhen refused to confide in advance, and Qin Jin was also curious, so he followed him around the Daxiong Treasure Hall, turned into the deep temple, and finally stopped in front of an independent courtyard after turning east and west.
"Since the guest is in the courtyard, the donor invites him in. The old monk still has to preside over the ceremony, and he will retire first!"