On August 24, in the early dynasty, Emperor Qiyang was furious, and the ministers were panicked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The cause of the incident originated from an excerpt of the head of the household book, Meng Quan.

Yesterday morning, Meng Quan was ordered by Emperor Qiyang to go to the major merchants in Huajing City to collect grain.

Originally, Emperor Qiyang felt that this matter must be nine out of ten, but he didn't expect that when Meng Quan came back, the grain of rice was not harvested, and he only gave him a fold.

The general meaning of the twist and turn is that the disaster in the south is quite serious, and the heavy rain for several days has hindered the transportation of grain into Huajing as scheduled, and the merchants are "difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice", and there is not much grain in their hands, so they cannot sell it at a regular price.

When Emperor Qiyang saw this letter, he was furious.

What does that mean? This is a blatant price hike! These profiteers are so bold that they disobey his will......

"Your Majesty!"

As soon as Emperor Qiyang wanted to open his mouth and beheaded these profiteers, he saw that the right minister was out of the ranks, so he had to swallow back the words that had come to his mouth.

In his heart, he was secretly talking, fortunately the right minister came out in time, otherwise he would have given such an order, I was afraid that it would be difficult to block the mouth of the world.

Therefore, the natural complexion of the right phase has eased a lot.

"If you have any opinions, you might as well talk about them."

"Your Majesty," the right side of the Qiyang Emperor bowed respectfully, "The old minister thinks that what Lord Meng said is true, these days, because of the continuous heavy rain, the water and land routes are not smooth, so the merchants can't get food, and it is normal for people to increase the price in desperation, Your Majesty is the lord of all the people in the world, and it is natural to act for every subject, and the merchants are also your people, so you can't let them chill!" ”

The right phase was sincere, and his words were conclusive, and Emperor Qiyang was stunned for a long time.

When he came back to his senses, Emperor Qiyang sighed heavily, "You Xiang is very thoughtful, and I am impulsive." ”

Seeing that Emperor Qiyang was deceived by a few words from the right minister, the left minister and the others secretly hated it in their hearts.

But they are really helpless, if they want to say that Emperor Qiyang has the biggest problem, that is, they can't listen to others say that he is "not good", and he is a character who does not seek merit, but seeks no fault.

With such a temperament, as the king of a country, it is really difficult to do anything.

Therefore, since Emperor Qiyang ascended the throne, relying on the rivers and mountains laid down by the old emperor, the wars of the Qi State have gradually decreased, the territory has not increased or decreased, and the people's livelihood is neither good nor bad.

When later generations of history books commented on this emperor, they only said moderation.

But Emperor Qiyang, who is such a temperament, is fortunate to be very assertive and has an improper right minister, Li Yi, who often believes in his words.

The left prime minister is the head of the hundred officials, and he has no choice but to be the right minister, and he has to avoid his edge.

At this time, Emperor Qiyang's mind was already decided, and Zuo Xiang had no way to refute it, which would only make Emperor Qiyang dislike him even more.

In the end, Emperor Qiyang's decision will not change, and he will still be charged with disobedience to the monarch, and let the right minister and others take advantage of him in vain.

The left minister looked at the fact that most of the officials in the DPRK and the central government were now driven by the right minister, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

When will the court of Qi be clear again?

In fact, the right minister spoke to dissuade Emperor Qiyang, and there was only one purpose, that is, as he had discussed with Hubu Shangshu in advance, let Emperor Qiyang take out more silver to collect grain, and then they would make the difference from it.

They don't know how much they have done this kind of thing, so they are naturally familiar with it.

It's just that they never dreamed that this time, things would not go as smoothly as they expected......

In the end, Emperor Qiyang asked Mengquan, the head of the household, to take out twice as much silver for collecting grain, and the early dynasty was dispersed.

Meng Quan was overjoyed, and immediately agreed to it, ready to go and withdraw the silver.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Quan was full of food and drink, carrying a silver ticket, and taking his henchmen to several major grain stores.

Who knew that when he went, he was leisurely, but when he arrived, he was almost scared to death.

"You, you made it clear, what is the grain that has been stolen!" Meng Quan pointed to the grain merchant kneeling in front of him, and his hands trembled with anger.

"My lord, how dare the villain deceive you, really, overnight, the entire granary was emptied, and you also sent someone to see it, how dare the villain deceive you!"

Meng Quan was so anxious that he turned around three times in place, and said, "This ...... You, you stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere, you are not allowed to tell anyone about this! ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the boss of the grain store to react, and hurriedly went out with his henchmen and went straight to other grain stores.

After a while, Meng Quan's face turned pale and cold sweat came out.

How is this possible, overnight, so much food is gone!

No, this matter is a big matter, he has to hurry up and tell Xiang Ye and let Xiang Ye make up his mind!

Thinking of this, Meng Quan kept walking, got into his own carriage, and asked his henchmen to rush to the right minister's mansion.

When he arrived at the back door of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, Meng Quan personally got out of the car and knocked on the door, and when he saw someone coming to open the door, he didn't even wait to report it, he directly pushed the door open and went inside.

The one guarding the back door was Li Yunfei's henchman, and when he saw that Meng Quan was coming, he wanted to welcome him in, but who knew that Meng Quan was so anxious?

The concierge also had some knowledge, and knew that something terrible must have happened, so he hurriedly led Meng Quan to the direction of the right minister's study.

Meng Quan arrived at the right minister's study, and as soon as he entered, he hurriedly told the situation on the grain store.

"What?" After listening to his words, the right minister was also very puzzled.

"The teacher is above, how dare your subordinates deceive you, your subordinates have just learned the news, and they are busy reporting to you, our silver has been used, but the food is gone, how can you say this is good?"

Meng Quan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, moving endlessly.

"Panic what!" Li Yi saw him like this, and then reprimanded, "You went to see it in person, and you really didn't have any food?" ”

"Seriously, it's clean, there's nothing left!" Meng Quan cried with a sad face.

How could he not be in a hurry? Emperor Qiyang instructed him to withdraw the silver for the purpose of collecting grain, but now the silver has long been used by the right minister for that "big event", but the grain is gone.

He just didn't know how he would reply to Emperor Qiyang later?

Do you want to tell Emperor Qiyang that he was looted halfway, and the grain and silver were taken by thieves?

Unless Emperor Qiyang is a three-year-old child, how can he believe such nonsense!

That's 100,000 taels of silver for nothing!

Yes, he not only embezzled the money collected for grain, but also the silver used to rebuild the western part of the city after the disaster.

Originally, I wanted to wait for this grain to make a lot of money and fill this vacancy!

But now that the food is gone, what will he use to make money?

Thinking of this, Meng Quan had no choice but to turn his hope to the right again.

The right minister naturally knew that this matter was widely implicated, and Meng Quan was his confidant, how did he want him to have an accident.

Therefore, after thinking hard for a long time, he summoned Meng Quan to elaborate an idea in his ear.

"Will this work, Master?" Meng Quan's pupils suddenly dilated when he heard this, and he was a little incredulous. (To be continued.) )