Chapter 117: Attack it in groups

Li Chengqian saw that Cheng Mingzhen's position was finally implemented, and he felt a lot more relaxed.

Cheng Mingzhen is a person who can stand alone in literature, martial arts, and the most important thing is that he has nothing to do with the DPRK and China, and now that he has the label of Li Chengqian, he can only stand on Li Chengqian's side.

Just when Li Chengqian was happy, he saw Yu Zhining walking out with a solemn expression and solemnly saluting, Li Chengqian thought to himself, this should be what they plotted yesterday, right?

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for being greedy for money, acting stingy, doing business in private, competing with the people for profit, and losing the crown prince's system, please Your Majesty decree that the prince should study well in the East Palace, and learn the way to be the king, the country will be very fortunate, and the society will be very fortunate." Yu Zhining finished his words in a suppressed manner, and stood on the main hall waiting for Li Shimin's reply.

Except for a few ministers who knew the news yesterday, the other ministers in the hall were all ignorant, and then thinking about it, they all felt that the impeachment also made some sense, especially the minister who went to Longshouyuan to see the iron smelting that day.

Li Chengqian's face turned completely black when he heard this, and without waiting for Li Shimin to speak, he gritted his teeth and said, "Yu Zhining, do you know the fate of slandering the Lone King?"

Yu Zhining was unmoved, and said calmly: "The words played by the minister are true, and he has never slandered His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chengqian became more and more angry when he saw him pretending like this, and it was not so slanderous to slander people, Lao Tzu was diligent and economical, and he was reluctant to invite others to eat a meal, so why did he become greedy for money and stingy?

Li Chengqian slammed his crutches and stood up and roared loudly: "Okay! So you're going to make it clear?"

Yu Zhining saw that Li Chengqian was annoyed and embarrassed, and became more and more calm, and saluted steadily: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Then he raised his head and looked at Li Shimin and Li Chengqian and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, in order to get more food, you have recruited a large number of people to reclaim wasteland in Longshou Plain.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince needs to know that these people were originally tenant farmers of large families in Guanzhong, and this spring they should have cultivated the ripe fields that had been cultivated for many years.

Such a ripe field can produce a lot more grain than the newly cultivated raw land on Longshou Plain, but His Royal Highness let them abandon their family and business to come to Longshou Yuan to cultivate raw land for their own selfish interests, so that the original good land in Guanzhong was not cultivated, isn't this greedy for money and competing with the people for profit? Moreover, harming people and the country is only beneficial to His Royal Highness the Prince. When Yu Zhining said this, he looked up at Li Shimin and Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian basically talked nonsense when he heard him, but he was not so angry and sat back on his small throne, watching Yu Zhining's performance with a serious expression.

Yu Zhining saw that Li Chengqian had no reaction, so he said sadly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's stinginess is something that everyone in Chang'an City knows, not to mention that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has received very little rewards for the people before the year, even if he treats the minister, he is not willing to reward a coarse tea and light meal, and he has to collect four copper plates for three dishes and one soup, this is really an unprecedented thing!" ”

After Yu Zhining finished saying this, he turned to face the ministers and asked loudly, "Which of you has ever heard of such a thing?" Seeing that someone nodded, he turned to look at Li Chengqian again, and waited for Li Chengqian to give him an answer.

Li Chengqian sneered and said: "What the lonely king eats and uses is the people's offerings, so naturally he can't waste a penny. What you go to eat is the people's money, and you will naturally take it back and use it for the people. ”

Yu Zhining listened, nodded and said: "Okay, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is selfless, but the dignified Prince of the Tang Dynasty actually opened an iron workshop, a bookstore, and a grain shop, buying low and selling high businessmen, His Royal Highness the Prince is the prince of the country, and I am afraid that the country will not be a country in the long run!"

As a minister of the East Palace, Chen Tian can't persuade the prince to do the right thing, and he really has a grace to God, so I ask Your Majesty to surrender the crime, and I only hope that Your Majesty can strictly discipline His Royal Highness the Prince, so as to avoid unforeseen disasters. After Yu Zhining finished speaking impassionedly, he crawled on the ground and cried bitterly.

Li Chengqian listened to Yu Zhining's nonsense, so he didn't rush to defend himself, and sat there steadily to see if any ministers came out to speak for him.

However, Li Shimin and other ministers were taken aback by what Yu Zhining said, Li Shimin saw a lot of things that Li Chengqian had done these days, and Li Shimin was not satisfied with things like the minister eating a meal and collecting four copper plates, but he didn't think about it deeply at the time.

Recruiting people to come to Longshouyuan to reclaim wasteland, Li Shimin originally just wanted those extremely poor people to have a bite to eat in Longshouyuan.

After agreeing to Li Chengqian's request to recruit more people in Guanzhong that day, Changsun Wuji also told him that this would affect the spring planting in Guanzhong, and he didn't care much about it.

Li Chengqian's order went down for the first few days, and no one came, and he was quite happy, but he didn't expect Li Chengqian to attract tens of thousands of people with a small song. It's just that since he agreed to Li Chengqian, he didn't interfere more, and when I heard Yu Zhining say it today, I realized that this still had a great impact on Guanzhong.

What Li Shimin couldn't bear the most was hearing that Li Chengqian opened a grain store and did business.

The ancient Chinese mentioned that merchants mainly refer to today's logistics and circulation industry and retail industry, such as today's factories in ancient China, which belonged to the workers of Shinong Industry and Commerce, and were generally developed and inherited in the form of small family workshops and masters with apprentices.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the productivity could not go up, and the national policies would suppress commerce, and these policies would often become the ancestral system, and with the political stability and economic development of a court, an interest group would be formed to exploit the merchants with the help of this ancestral system, some yamen and magnates, so the status of the merchants was never high.

During the Zhenguan period, the vitality of the Tang Dynasty was low, and the imperial court could only encourage production and inhibit commerce.

Moreover, the Li Tang royal family yearns for the high status of the scholar family, and also likes to flaunt that he is noble, and Li Chengqian must not allow Li Shimin to open a grain store.

Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian angrily, and when he saw that Li Chengqian was still sitting steadily, he thought there was some misunderstanding and said angrily: "Can Chengqian have these things?"

Li Chengqian waited for a long time and saw that no minister came out to defend himself, so he stood up and looked at Yu Zhining and asked, "Yu Zhining, may I ask that family's fertile land has been abandoned because no one rents it?"

"This!" Yu Zhining was stunned when he heard this, he didn't ask this clearly, but he had written twenty volumes of "The Garden" and was also a battle-hardened person, so he immediately argued: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has recruited more than 100,000 people in Guanzhong to transport grain, strike iron, and open up wasteland, and the fields that these people originally planted are naturally not planted. ”

"Bastard!" As soon as Li Chengqian heard his strong arguments, he didn't fight anywhere, and then asked sharply: "Who told you that they originally had land to plant, how could they have no food to eat if they had land?"

"Please pay attention to the manners of the Prince's Palace!" Xiao Yu stood up and said.

Li Chengqian glanced at the troubled Xiao Yu and ignored him, but stared at Yu Zhining and said, "Say!" Why do they have no food to eat when they have land?"

Yu Zhining was anxious when asked, and said with a red face: "Naturally, it is because they are lazy and do not produce that they have no food." ”

Li Chengqian sneered when he heard this: "Yu Zhining, your memory is not so bad, just now you said that they came to Longshouyuan to reclaim the fertile land they cultivated was wasted, and now you say that they don't produce so they don't have food, which sentence is true?"

"Ugh! Minister ......" Yu Zhining said dumbly.

"Your Majesty, what Lord Yu said is not wrong, the victims rescued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a year ago are naturally people who have no land, but the people who have been recruited in the past few days have food to eat, and coming to Longshouyuan will indeed cause the good land in Guanzhong to be wasted." Su Xun, the servant of the ministry, stood up and defended Yu Zhining.

"It's that the dragon head has already started to cultivate, so why do you need to recruit tenant farmers again?"

"The fact that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a merchant is rare in the ages!"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should put benevolence and filial piety first, and it is ...... to study well in the East Palace"

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As soon as Su Xun stood up, more than a dozen ministers immediately stood up against Li Chengqian, and for a time Li Chengqian became the target of the public, and the ministers rose up to attack him.